eprintid: 2324 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/00/23/24 datestamp: 2023-11-09 15:50:32 lastmod: 2023-11-09 15:50:32 status_changed: 2023-11-09 15:42:30 type: conference_item metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Jamil, A. creators_name: Yusoff, M.Z. creators_name: Yahya, N. creators_name: Zakariya, M.A. title: A compact multiband hybrid meander-Koch Fractal antenna for WLAN USB dongle ispublished: pub keywords: Bandwidth; Efficiency; Fractals; IEEE Standards; Mobile antennas; Partial discharges; Wireless local area networks (WLAN), Communication technologies; CST microwave studio; High radiation efficiency; Koch; meander; Multiband antennas; Return loss bandwidth; USB dongle, Microwave antennas note: cited By 32; Conference of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Open Systems, ICOS 2011 ; Conference Date: 25 September 2011 Through 28 September 2011; Conference Code:87606 abstract: There is a current upsurge for the high data rate and wide bandwidth in the communication technologies. This has posed several challenges for the researchers. These challenges include but are not limited to size reduction, high efficiency, and low-cost. The prevailing fashion in the communication system is to integrate several WLAN standards in small user equipment. The emergence of the USB dongle for WLAN has attracted the antenna design engineers to design multi band antennas. The antenna size is restricted to the small size of the USB dongle. The main challenge is to reduce the antenna size without compromising on the performance related characteristics such as; wide bandwidth, low VSWR, high gain and high radiation efficiency. In this paper a novel Koch-meander Fractal antenna has been proposed for the application of WLAN USB dongle. The proposed compact antenna is simulated in CST microwave studio. The simulation results depicts that the antenna has a -10 dB return loss bandwidth of 2.2909 - 2.553 GHz and 5.1406 - 5.8737 GHz. The minimum return loss of -28.9 dB is achieved at the lower band of 2.41 GHz. While the upper band depicts a return loss of -20.8 dB at 5.36 GHz. The proposed antenna is capable of covering the whole band required for the WLAN 802.11 a/b/g standards. © 2011 IEEE. date: 2011 publisher: IEEE Computer Society official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-83155161723&doi=10.1109%2fICOS.2011.6079295&partnerID=40&md5=bae6938a139f59a7efef2aacc3503c76 id_number: 10.1109/ICOS.2011.6079295 full_text_status: none publication: 2011 IEEE Conference on Open Systems, ICOS 2011 place_of_pub: Langkawi pagerange: 290-293 refereed: TRUE isbn: 9781612849317 citation: Jamil, A. and Yusoff, M.Z. and Yahya, N. and Zakariya, M.A. (2011) A compact multiband hybrid meander-Koch Fractal antenna for WLAN USB dongle. In: UNSPECIFIED.