Meander Line Antenna for LTE Communications

Abstract

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is a fourth generation standard for wireless communications of high data speed at the user terminal. This evolved technology needs a cutting edge system component to be designed for the node B (Base station) and the user mobile device. In any wireless device, the perform ance of radio communications depends on the design of an efficient antenna. Achieving Long Term Evolution (LTE) frequency bands (the second generation (2G), third generation (3G), and the proposed fourth generation (4G) frequency bands) using a small - size antenna in a compact device remains a major technical challenge. Antenna is an inseparable part of these systems. Meander line antenna is the most usage of antenna that use in design of these applications. The Objective of Paper is to design a meander line antenna for WLAN application that is 2.4 GHz has been achieved. The meander line microstrip antenna has been designed, constructed, and measured. The microstrip element is quarter wavelength at the design frequency. The properties of antenna like return l oss, bandwidth and radiation pattern have been measured. The design starts with calculation of dimension like the width, effective dielectric constant of microstrip line and length of antenna. Thus by using HFSS Version 11 the antenna has been designed and simulated. As the result, the antenna can radiate the signal at WLAN frequency and provide good return loss bandwidth and sufficient gain. The antenna can operate less than - 10db that is 2.4GHz with at s11 measured at - 35.5 db.After finish with the simulat ion, the design has been fabricated on FR4 substrate using the etching technique. Finally the design has been tested with network analyze