Wideband Monopole Antenna for WLAN Applications

This paper presents a circular patch antenna for WLAN applications with wideband characteristics. It is shown that impedance of the antenna is matched over wideband by using the partial ground plane and quarter wave transformer with slotted TX-Line. Ansoft HFSS is used for simulation tool to map the numerical results for the return loss frequency behavior of antenna. Measure of bandwidth, return loss and radiation pattern are also reported with satisfactory performance. As the patch is circular in shape so substrate is kept in the same shape. The shape of the substrate is also discussed in details for specific antenna designs.