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2010
Conference Paper
Titel
Design and Characterization of a Low Profile Miniaturized UHF PIFA for Compact Wireless Sensor Nodes
Abstract
In this work, a miniaturized planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) with low profile on a small ground plane is designed and characterized for integration in a compact autarkic wireless sensor node. The physical size of the antenna is 24 mm x 11 mm x 3 mm (0.07λ x 0.03λ x 0.01λ) including the small ground plane and operates in the UHF band at 868 MHz with a -10 dB impedance bandwidth of 9 MHz. The antenna gain is -12 dBi. The resonance frequency and input impedance can be easily tuned by altering the meander length and shorting post position, respectively. Simulation and measurement results are presented.