FRACTAL SEGMENTED LOTUS SHAPE PLANAR MONOPOLE ANTENNA

Fractal segmented lotus shape planar monopole antenna for multiband applications is proposed. The overall size of the proposed design is about 28mm x 35mm x 1.6mm. The proposed antenna has been designed on FR - 4 and the dielectric constant of 4.4, thickness of 1.6mm and loss of tangent is 0.02. Fractal techniques has imposed to increase the number of bands and wide bandwidth. The applications of the proposed antenna are satellite communications, defence tracking, air traffic control, weather monitoring. The proposed antenna is designed and simulated by using the HFSS software. Keywords – Rectangular Microstrip Antenna, Fractal, Leaf shape, Lotus structure, Multiband, FBW, HFS.