Wideband Sierpinski Carpet Fractal Shaped Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for X-Band Application

Dipali Soren, Rowdra Ghatak, Rabindra Kishore Mishra, Dipak Ranjan Poddar

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DOI: 10.4236/jemaa.2012.41002                

Abstract

In this paper, a wideband Sierpinski carpet patterned cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) operating in the X-Band is proposed. This DRA is realized from low cost Teflon. An impedance bandwidth of 50% is obtained cove- ring the entire X-band with similar radiation pattern throughout the band. The average peak gain within the band is about 5.5 dBi.

Keywords

Wideband; Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA); Fractal; Sierpinski Carpet

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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