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Chip Antenna for 5.2 GHz Wireless LAN

The authors have proposed two types of microstrip antennas printed on the parallelepiped dielectric chip for the Bluetooth system and the 5.2 GHz wireless LAN. These antennas are excited by the electromagnetic coupling. For the Bluetooth system, the rectangular patch conductor is printed on the chip and excited by the...

Tags: LAN, Millimeter, WLAN, Antenna, Chip, Wireless, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking

White papers 2009-03-25

Two Element Planar Dipole Array Antenna for Wireless LAN

Off late, the demand for Broadband Internet Connection has been expanded. However, a lot of digital divide areas still exist. In these areas, the introduction of optical fiber and public wireless LAN is difficult in terms of profitability. As the countermeasure to these digital divide, the introduction of "Wireless LAN...

Tags: WLAN, Antenna, Wireless, LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2009-03-25

Broadband Stacked Patch Antenna for Bluetooth Applications

Microstrip patch antennas are well suited for wireless Local Area Network LAN application systems due to their versatility, conformability, low cost and low sensitivity to manufacturing tolerances. Conventionally patch antennas have showed a narrowband response, implicating low bit rate transfer. Recently the importance has been placed upon creating patch antennas...

Tags: Bluetooth Application, Broadband, Antenna, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, LANs, Networking

White papers 2009-02-03

MININEC Pro 1.0.1 (Mac)

MININEC Pro is an antenna analysis program for Windows and Macintosh computers. Any type of antenna may be analyzed. The physical design of the antenna is entered such as the lengths of wires and elements. For a given frequency, the feedpoint impedance is calculated, along with theoretical efficiency.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antenna, Black Cat Systems, MININEC Pro, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-01-03

RF Toolbox OSX 3.7 (Mac)

RF Toolbox helps with the design of the following types of antennas: Dipole Fat Dipole Yagi J-Pole Super J-Pole Log Periodic Cubic Quad Vertical It also assists with the following calculations: Coil Design LC Filter Design Transmission Line Loss L Matching Networks Pi Matching Networks Impedance Calculations...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Calculation, Antenna, Black Cat Systems, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-12-22

Dual-Band Dipole Antenna for RFID Tag Applications

New design of a dipole antenna with rectangular fractal shape radiator element with two operating bands for Radio Frequency Identification RFID is presented. By using fractal shape slot and metal meander patch, the proposed antenna has the wide and dual measured return loss bandwidth. Besides, the omnidirectional radiation pattern of...

Tags: Antenna, RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2008-10-01

A Novel Wire Antenna for GPS and WLAN Co-Design

A high performance dual band monopole antenna fabricated using single folded wires as radiator is presented. A prototype of the proposed monopole antenna with a compact area size of 6mm×6mm×10mm is implemented, and the antenna shows a wide operating dual bandwidth (referenced VSWR=3) of about 295MHz and 343MHz for low...

Tags: WLAN, Antenna, GPS, PDAs, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

White papers 2008-07-25

Patch Antenna Based on Metamaterials for a RFID Transponder

In this paper a self-diplexed antenna is proposed for a RFID transponder application. The development cycle is divided into two stages: antenna design and filters design. The antenna is based on a square microstrip patch filled with metamaterial structures. The inclusion of these structures allows simultaneous operation over several frequencies,...

Tags: Antenna, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2008-06-01

AntWave 1.0 (Mobile)

AntWave is a simple Frequency to WaveLength calculator to assist in building antennas.

Tags: Mobile, Antenna, Andrew Waugh, AntWave, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Antennas and Propagation in UHF RFID Systems

This paper discusses antennas and propagation aspects in current passive UHF RFID systems. The paper considers a "Reader-tag-reader" link and concentrates on each part of it: reader antennas, propagation channel, and tags. The paper includes channel modeling equations and support the discussion with experimental measurements of tag performance in various...

Tags: Intermec Technologies Corp., Modeling, Antenna, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2008-04-17

Build your own Wi-Fi antenna

If you need a signal boost and want to get a little creative, the U.K. site Heise Online has a detailed post on creating a homemade Cantenna for 802.11b/g routers. (802.11a routers require antennas of different dimensions.) It’s a great way to recycle packaging for household goods and ramp up...

Tags: Antenna, Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Wi-Fi, Network Technology, Wireless, Networking, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Adaptive Antenna Array for IEEE802.16e Base Station in the Presence of Multipath and Interference and Considering Mutual Coupling Effects

In this paper, an adaptive antenna array beamformer for the Base Station of Mobile WiMAX (IEEE802.16e) is designed. This antenna is considered for uplink beamforming in presence of interferer signals and noisy multipath channel. Complex excitation coefficients of the array elements are controlled adaptively to track the mobile user signal...

Tags: Mobile, Antenna, Element Pattern, WiMAX, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing

White papers 2008-04-08

Wi-Fire high-gain Wi-Fi antenna doesn't always ignite

In my quest for a wider-reaching Wi-Fi signal, I took notice when I stumbled upon a new to me company called hField Technologies. It markets a directional USB antenna that can deliver a signal up to 1,000 feet. But what really got me? A review from MacEnstein.com that claimed hField’s...

Tags: Antenna, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-03-10

Expert tips on extending your home Wi-Fi range

Reviewers of wireless routers obsess about throughput, but let’s face it: Few of us are shuffling HD video from PC to TV. The performance issue that matters to most people is range, since many users find that they have a room or two in their house where Wi-Fi just won’t...

Tags: Router, Antenna, Hawking, Wi-Fi, Routers & Switches, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Network Technology, Networking, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-02-22

One year till death of analog TV in USA

Analog TV will no longer be broadcast one year from today on February 19th 2009, are you ready for the conversion to digital TV?  This may or may not affect you so here's what you need to know to avoid losing TV reception! The first question to...

Tags: Coupon, U.S. Government, Antenna, AntennaWeb.org, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-19

The Art of UHF RFID Antenna Design: Impedance Matching and Size-Reduction Techniques

Radio Frequency Identification technology based on the reader/tag paradigm is quickly permeating several aspects of the everyday life. The electromagnetic research mainly concerns the design of tag antennas having high efficiency and small size and suited to complex impedance matching to the embedded electronics. Starting from the available but fragmented...

Tags: Antenna, University Of Rome, RFID, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing Research, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Marketing

White papers 2008-01-01

WiMAX System Performance in Highly Mobile Scenarios With Directional Antennas

This paper presents a performance evaluation of a WiMAX system (802.16-2004) employing directional antennas in highly mobile applications. A WiMAX physical layer simulator is used together with an appropriate mobile channel model to perform the analysis. Results show that mobile performance is significantly improved when directional antennas are utilised at...

Tags: Performance, Mobile, Antenna, WiMAX Physical Layer Simulator, WiMAX, Performance Management, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing

White papers 2007-11-27

Ruckus brings smart antennas to the enterprise wireless LAN space

Ruckus Wireless launched a new line of products for the small to mid enterprise wireless LAN space.  Ruckus was a maker of smart antenna technology specializing in smooth and reliable data delivery for IPTV applications but now they are extending this technology to the enterprise space. ...

Tags: LAN, WLAN, Access Point, Antenna, Ruckus Wireless, Ruckus 2942, MediaFlex, Wireless, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-11-20

Hatena Antenna Gadget 1.4.5 (Windows)

Lists your hatena antenna. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Antenna, Tennetiss, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-11-08

Bandwidth Provisioning in Infrastructure-Based Wireless Networks Employing Directional Antennas

Motivated by the widespread proliferation of wireless networks employing directional antennas, the paper study the problem of provisioning bandwidth in such networks. Given a set of subscribers and one or more access points possessing directional antennas, the paper formalizes the problem of orienting these antennas in two fundamental settings; subscriber-centric,...

Tags: Bandwidth, Network, Provisioning, Wireless Network, Antenna, Wireless

White papers 2007-07-10