A novel antenna design with DGS for emergency management

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Kakkar, Sushil^{a; *} | Rani, Shweta^b

Affiliations: [a] Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sangrur, Punjab, India | [b] Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Sangrur, Punjab, India

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Sushil Kakkar, Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sangrur, Punjab, India. E-mail: kakkar778@gmail.com

Abstract: This paper presents an analysis and design of a novel planar antenna in corporation with fractal shaped defected ground structure (DGS) for wireless communication devoted to emergency management. The conventional ground plane can be replaced by a Fractal DGS ground plane to get size reduction, better efficiency and suppress surface-waves. The synthesis of proposed antenna is carried out by means of particle swarm optimization (PSO) to identify the geometrical descriptors of the structure. The representative results reveals that the proposed geometry exhibit better impedance matching and multiband characteristics in comparison to conventional planar antenna (without any defects). The analyses from simulations, numerical and experimental validations are reported in order to illustrate the effectiveness of varying scale factor that contributes 69.08% size reduction of ground plane.

Keywords: DGS, fractals, PSO

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-131690

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 629-637, 2013