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    Parametric studies on effects of defected ground structure (DGS) for dual band bandstop microstrip filter
    A dual-band bandstop microstrip filter is proposed and designed by using microstrip resonator with Defected Ground Structure (DGS). The DGS are placed in the ground plane to obtain high attenuation of the bandstop filter response. The proposed is designed by using R04003C printed circuit board with dimension of 38 mm x 20 mm. Simulated result shows an insertion loss of -12.31 dB, a return loss at -1.75 dB for center frequency at 2.4 GHz and insertion loss of -22.93 dB, a return loss of -0.78 dB for center frequency at 5.8 GHz The results of simulated in different parameters of DGS is analysed and discussed.
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    Flexible Co-Planar Waveguide (CPW)-Fed Y-Shaped Patch UWB Antenna for Off-Body Communication
    ( 2020-03-18)
    Kassim S.
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    Soh Ping Jack
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    Abdulmalek M.
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    Jamaluddin M.H.
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    Sabli N.S.
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    Yassin M.N.
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    Ismail N.
    This paper intends to design an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) antenna for future Internet of Things (IoT) applications for off-body Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) communication. An antenna based on the Y-shaped patch fed using co-planar waveguide (CPW) line, with a full ground plane is designed. It is implemented on two different substrates, namely a 5mm thick Rogers RO4350B and a 5-mm-thick felt textile. Parametric analysis of antenna is performed by changing its critical dimensions and monitoring parameters such as gain, bandwidth, efficiency, radiation pattern when using both substrates. Besides that, the bending effects towards reflection coefficient and radiation patterns are also studied. The final patch size with the Y-shaped slot is 36 × 40 mm2 for both substrates. The antenna is capable of providing coverage for the bands from 8 to 10 GHz. Finally, the antenna designed on RO4350B substrate outperforms the antenna designed on felt by about four times in terms of bandwidth, with 3.3 GHz (7.7-11 GHz).
  • Publication
    Beam controller antenna for WiMAX application
    ( 2017-01-01)
    Leong Lim Wai
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    Yeow You Kok
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    Mohd Fareq Abdul Malek
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    Yew Lee Chia
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    Seng Lee Yeng
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    Introduce a practical design of an antenna that able to control the radiation beam pattern by using PIN diode and capacitor. The operation of the antenna is an on/off switch that controlled by PIN diode and Direct Current (DC) that supply from an an external source. The proposed antenna was verified to be able to cover the direction of 90 degreess when the DC is turn on. The DC pass through the PIN diode and activate the diode to be functioned as a switch. This proposed antenna is operated at a frequency of 2.3 GHz which is for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) application that symbolizes in the IEEE 802.16 family. This antenna is designed using a FR-4 substrate material with the dimension is 200 mm×200 mm using Computer Simulation Technology Microwave Studio (CST MWS) simulator software.
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    Enhanced microwave absorption of rice husk‐based pyramidal microwave absorber with different lossy base layer
    (The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2020)
    Lee Yeng Seng
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    Soh Ping Jack
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    You Kok Yeow
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    Lee Chia Yew
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    Gan Hong Seng
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    Fareq Malek
    The size of pyramidal microwave absorbers (PMA) is one of the main considerations for their selection for use in anechoic chambers. In this work, a new type of PMA is introduced, with rice husk (RH) as its filler. Meanwhile, a lossy base layer is also introduced in the PMA using a combined RH and carbon nanotube (CNT) composite. To do so, the dielectric properties of the RH‐CNT composite are first investigated from 2–18 GHz by using a dielectric probe. Next, the microwave absorption properties of the PMA were investigated in terms of different height of the pyramidal structure and base layer. The free‐space method was used to measure the microwave absorption of PMA at oblique incident angles of 0° to 60°, respectively. Results indicated good microwave absorption characteristics in the 2–6 GHz with a height of 11.5 cm the PMA structure, and 1 cm thickness of the base layer. The lossy base layer is found to increase the bandwidth of the absorber and improve the microwave absorption of PMA in the lower GHz frequencies. Further investigations concluded that the microwave absorption performance of the PMA is dependent on its dielectric properties, size and base layer.
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    An ultrawideband full flexible 4 elements DGS based MIMO antenna for Sub-6 GHz wearable applications
    (IEEE, 2024-03)
    Bikash Chandra Sahoo
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    Surentiran Padmanathan
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    Sadia Afroz
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    Soh Ping Jack
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    Soumya Ranjan Mishra
    In this article, a compact wearable quad element MIMO antenna is presented operating at 4.5 GHz for 5G n77, n78, and n79 bands with the use of polyester substrate with a size of 80 × 82 × 0.4 mm3. Here T-shaped defected ground structure (DGS) technique has been utilized to improve the impedance bandwidth along with the reduction of the mutual coupling between the radiating elements. The antenna is evaluated in terms of reflection coefficient, gain, efficiency, and radiation pattern. The proposed MIMO antenna attained a maximum simulated gain of 4.3 dBi, and an efficiency of 96 % in the resonating band.
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    Compact full flexible vivaldi antenna for 3.5 GHz wearable applications
    (IEEE, 2023)
    Bikash Chandra Sahoo
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    Surentiran Padmanathan
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    Sadia Afroz
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    Yen San Loh
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    Muhammad Syahir Mahyuddin
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    Lai Ming Lim
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    Zambri Samsudin
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    Idris Mansor
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    Soh Ping Jack
    In this paper, a compact wearable Vivaldi antenna resonating at 3.5 GHz is proposed for 5G n77, and n78 bands. It is designed upon a flexible polyester substrate having dielectric constant (εr) of 1.34 and loss tangent (tan δ) of 0.005. The antenna parameters were optimized via parametric analyses using CST software with a size of 45 × 45 × 0.4 mm3 (length × width × height). The antenna is evaluated in terms of reflection coefficient, gain, efficiency, radiation pattern, and surface current density. This antenna attained a maximum simulated gain of 4.7 dBi, and an efficiency of 98 % in the resonating band.
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    Tuneable dual-mode narrowband bandstop filter using loaded microstrip resonator
    Novel tuneable dual-mode narrowband bandstop filter using loaded microstrip resonator is presented. The filter is designed by using coupled line coupling with the microstrip resonator. There is two different pair of loaded resonator that produces a dual band bandstop filter. The dual band bandstop resonance frequency can be tuned independently by adjusting the resonator width and length. To achieve high selectivity of the bandstop filter response, defected ground structure (DGS) is applied in the filter layout. The tapped lines structure (TLS) are used to suppress second harmonic frequency. The dual band bandstop filter is resonant at 2.4 GHz with 200 MHz of bandwidth and 5.8 GHz with 300 MHz of bandwidth. The bandstop filter layout is fabricated on RO 4003C with 0.508 mm of substrate thickness. It is compact dimension with 19.6mm × 38.8mm. The advantages of this bandstop filter are simple layout and it can be tuned to the specified frequencies.
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    Coconut shell, coconut shell activated carbon and beta-silicon carbide reinforced polymer composite: an alternative dielectric material for wireless communication application
    (Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES), 2020)
    Been Seok Yew
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    Martini Muhamad
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    Saiful Bahri Mohamed
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    The effect of coconut shell (CS), coconut shell activated carbon (CSAC) and beta-silicon carbide (β-SiC) in polymer composites was investigated. Elemental composition, surface morphologies and structural analyses of the fillers were performed using carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur (CHNS) analyser, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray Diffractometer (XRD). The dielectric properties of the composites were measured using open-ended coaxial line method. CS and CSAC fillers had positive influence on the dielectric properties (ε’, ε” and σ) of the polymer composites, contributed by the orientation polarizations arises from polar nature of the amorphous CS and CSAC fillers. β-SiC filler had insignificant influence on the dielectric properties of the polymer composites due to its single polarization of the crystalline structure filler. This finding is in agreement with XRD patterns of CS and CSAC fillers that revealed the presence of amorphous structure with broad diffraction peaks that were detected at 2ϴ=22.236°, 34.8604° and 2ϴ=23.985° and 44.015°, respectively. The amorphization structure in the polymer composites allows the displacement and conduction currents that were induced from electric field to flow through the polymer composites when subjected to electromagnetic energy, thus increased the dielectric properties of the composites.
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    Miniaturized and high gain RFID reader antenna at 13.56MHz
    ( 2020-03-20)
    Saleh Y.M.
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    Yew B.S.
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    Lee Y.S.
    Technology for radio frequency identification (RFID) is commonly used worldwide. RFID is a developing wireless technology which make new vital challenge. The ability to precisely read a set of RFID tags become major concern in RFID networks coverage Detailed analysis of the design based on the 13.56 MHz radio frequency was suggested to design a kind of RFID reader antenna. Previously, researchers did facing problem with the size of the antenna which was to maintain the compact size at low frequency is challenging. The proposed antenna will be designed in the shape of rectangular spiral which contribute into miniaturize of the antenna size. The antenna will be fabricated after the optimum length and width had been achieved. The goal of this project is to design a small size antenna with 55mm 55 mm at frequency resonance of 13.56 MHz. to reduce the antenna gain on the future. We are going to design and add the metamaterial to the RFID reader antenna and combine them together and that will help to reduce the antenna gain.
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    UWB Antenna with Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) for 5G Applications
    ( 2020-01-01)
    Syuhaimi Kassim
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    Abdulmalek M.
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    Jamaluddin M.H.
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    Mohsin D.A.
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    Yahya N.Z.
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    Rani K.N.A.
    This paper presents the design of an ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna for Internet of Things (IoT) applications that operate within 5G operating frequencies. One of the IoT-based devices’ architecture is wireless body area networks (WBANs). WBAN allows computer device to communicate with human body signal by trading digital information like electrical conductivity. Fifth generation (5G) is the state-of-the-art generation mobile communication. A higher data speed it offers will improve data communication efficiency in WBAN system. One of the biggest challenges foreseen for the wearable UWB antenna is the antenna bandwidth. The challenge is to warrant a wideband performance throughout the operating frequency, and a trade-off with a high dielectric in proposed substrate is essential. This paper presents design and parametric analysis of an antenna using a typical industry-preferred Rogers material (RO4350B) substrate with wider bandwidth as compared to 5G frequencies, 10.125–10.225 GHz. This paper also exhibits bandwidth improvement with the presence of artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) as a metasurface. A typical UWB patch antenna was initially designed before being integrated with AMC through a parametric analysis. This paper analyzes the frequency, gain, directivity and antenna efficiency before and after optimization. This paper successfully demonstrates a slotted Y-shaped antenna design with coplanar waveguide (CPW) using a Rogers material (RO4350B) as a substrate and the bandwidth improvement by 15.6% with the AMC as a metasurface.
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