Multiband antenna for Bluetooth/ZigBee/ Wi-Fi/WiMAX/WLAN/X-band applications: Partial ground with periodic structures and EBG

A compact in size microstrip antenna with multiband resonance features is described in this paper. A circular antenna with the partial ground is used as a primary antenna which resonated for WiMAX band (3.3–3.7 GHz). Further, primary antenna embedded with mushroom shape EBG (Electromagnetic Band Gap) and periodic DGS (Defected Ground Structure) to operate over WLAN band (5.1–5.8 GHz) and X-band from 8–12 GHz. Proposed antenna covers 2.4/3.5/5.5 GHz bands and complete X-band which also reflects that it has novel suitability to use for a ZigBee/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth applications. The proposed antenna is etched on FR-4 substrate and overall dimension is 20×26×1.6 mm 3 . The projected antenna has wide-ranging bandwidth with VSWR < 2. It provides favorable agreement between measured and simulated results.