M. Malick

Bio: M. Malick is an academic researcher from Linköping University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dipole antenna & Patch antenna. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 18 citations.

A multiwideband planar monopole antenna for 4G devices

Abstract: This article presents a compact multiband planar antenna designed for mobile phone applications.The antenna performance is achieved by designing a planar monopole antenna into distributed radiating elements. The proposed antenna is comprised of a chopped circular radiator appended with a meander line and an L-strip coupled element, which is an extension of the ground plane. The combination of a chopped circular patch and L-shaped coupling strip residing on the top side generates lower band while upper band resonances are attained separately by chopped circular resonator and meander line elements. The antenna shows a planar structure which occupies an area of 56 x 17.6 mm and can be directly printed onto a circuit board at low cost making it especially suitable for mobile phone applications. The manufactured antenna is experimentally verified and covers several wireless communication bands, such as LTE 750, GSM 850, GSM 900, DCS, UMTS-2110, Bluetooth, WLAN, WiMAX, and UWB. The high frequency structure simulation is used to design and analyze the antenna performance, and a practical structure was fabricated and tested. The measured and simulated return loss show good agreement.

A Compact Kapton-Based Inkjet-Printed Multiband Antenna for Flexible Wireless Devices

Abstract: A low-cost inkjet-printed multiband antenna envisioned for integration into flexible and conformal mobile devices is presented. The antenna structure contains a novel triangular iterative design with coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed, printed on a Kapton polyimide-based flexible substrate with dimensions of $ 70\times 70\times 0.11~\hbox{mm}^{\bf 3}$ . The antenna covers four wide frequency bands with measured impedance bandwidths of 54.4%, 14%, 23.5% and 17.2%, centered at 1.2, 2.0, 2.6 and 3.4 GHz, respectively, thus, enabling it to cover GSM 900, GPS, UMTS, WLAN, ISM, Bluetooth, LTE 2300/2500 and WiMAX standards. The antenna has omnidirectional radiation pattern with a maximum gain of 2.1 dBi. To characterize the flexibility of the antenna, the fabricated prototype is tested in convex and concave bent configurations for radii of 78 mm and 59 mm. The overall performance remains unaffected, except a minor shift of 20 MHz and 60 MHz in S11, for concave bending at both radii. The compact, lightweight and conformal design as well as multiband performance in bent configurations, proves the suitability of the antenna for future electronic devices.

Interpreting the Total Isotropic Sensitivity and Diversity Gain of LTE-Enabled Wireless Devices From Over-the-Air Throughput Measurements in Reverberation Chambers

Abstract: The characterization of the performance of wireless devices is key to developing new RF products conforming to the latest communications protocols. Traditionally, communication performance tests have focused on the RF performance of the tested devices, e.g., smart phones, pads, laptops, and so on. In particular, the focus has shifted from conducted (i.e., cabled) measurements to more realistic over-the-air (OTA) characterization of the RF performance of these devices in transmit or receive mode. For example, the receiver performance of 2G and 3G wireless devices can be measured in terms of the total isotropic sensitivity (TIS) that depends on the antenna and the receiver parts of a wireless device. These measurements can be performed in a reverberation chamber setup. However, standard TIS measurements can be time-consuming and do not reflect the actual performance gains of multiple-input multiple-output antenna systems operating over orthogonal frequency division multiplexing channels, such as those encountered in 4G long-term evolution (LTE) systems. Therefore, in order to meet both time and cost efficiency requirements, we propose here a new method to determine the TIS, as well as the diversity performance, of an LTE device based on throughput measurements. The proposed method shows that the TIS of an LTE device is characterized much faster directly from OTA throughput measurements than from standard TIS measurements and with excellent accuracy.

A compact novel CPW-fed antenna with square spiral-patch for multiband applications

Abstract: A compact novel coplanar waveguide-fed antenna with square spiral-patch for multiband applications is presented. The antenna consists of a square-spiral patch with two L-shape strips. With subjoin square spiral the number of frequency resonance is increasing. Also by introducing two L-shaped strips in the inside of square spiral, much wider impedance bandwidth can be produced, especially at the higher bands. The operating frequencies of the proposed antenna are 2.62/3.40/4.42/5.92/8.32 GHz. Some key parameters affecting the antenna performance have been analyzed using computer simulations. To validate the simulation results, the prototypes of the proposed antenna are fabricated on an inexpensive FR-4 substrate and tested. Good radiation characteristics of the proposed antenna have been obtained. The simulated and measured results are in good agreement. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 57:111–115, 2015

Subsectional Tapered Fed Printed LPDA Antenna With a Feeding Point Patch

Abstract: In this letter, a log-periodic dipole array (LPDA) antenna operating between 1.1 and 13.8 GHz with and an average peak realized gain of 5.2 dB is presented. It is suitable for GPS (L1-L5), PCS, IMT-2000, Bluetooth, WLAN, WiMAX, UWB, and X-band applications. The antenna is designed by introducing a subsectional tapered feedline instead of standard microstrip feeding, which leads to a remarkable lower-frequency performance. The upper-frequency performance of the antenna is improved by adding a feeding point patch. The group delay is also examined for the final design, and maximum 1.5 ns deviation is observed in UWB. By using ordinary and simple dipoles with this modified feedline approach, a superior antenna performance is obtained over a very wide frequency band, and it is validated by the comparison of three fabricated antennas. Additionally, the antenna size is also reduced without using complicated and/or top-loaded dipole structures.