A Multiband Arrow Shaped Patch Antenna Based on Apollonian Gasket and Soddy’s circle for application in LTE and UWB range
Anurima Majumdar1, SisirkKumar Das2, Annapurnaa Das3

1AnurimamMajumdar, Department of Electronics.& Communication. Engineering (ECE), Guru. Nanak Institute of Technology(GNIT) JIS Group, KolkataA, India.
2Sisirk Kumar Das, Department of Electronics.& Communication. Engineering (ECE), Guru. Nanak Institute of Technology(GNIT) JIS Group, KolkataA, India.
3Annapurnaa Das, Department of Electronics.& Communication. Engineering(ECE), Guru. Nanak Institute of Technology(GNIT) JIS Group, KolkataA, India.
Manuscript received on November 22, 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on December 15, 2019. | Manuscript published on December 30, 2019. | PP: 2276-2282 | Volume-9 Issue-2, December, 2019. | Retrieval Number:  B3543129219/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.B3543.129219
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Abstract: A novel arrow shaped planar multiband antenna based on apollonian gasket and Soddy’s circle with Defective Ground Structure (DGS) is described in this paper. The structure is designed on an FR4_epoxy substrate (εr=4.4).The performance is evaluated using HFSS software. The antenna displays multiband behaviour in the frequency range from 3 to 10 GHz which is suitable for wireless communications applications.The antenna gives tri-frequency response in LTE range(600 MHz6GHz):1.17 GHz, 3.44 GHz and 6 GHz;and tetra frequency response in the UWB frequency range(3 GHz to 10 GHz): 8.1 GHz, 9.5 GHz, 11.8 GHz & 13.5 GHz which could be used in wireless and radar communications.The overall performance of the antenna demonstrates an average impedance bandwidth(IBW) of 300 MHz with a good impedance matching (S11< -10 dB).The proposed antenna has the satisfactory radiation characteristics throughout its operating band. The measured highest gain differs from 1 dBi to 1.9 dBi inthe entire frequency range.
Keywords: Arrow shaped antenna, apollonian gasket, Soddy’s circle,multiband, defected ground structure(DGS), microstrip patch antenna (MPA)