THE DEVELOPMENT OF DUAL BAND DRA HYBRID ANTENNA

In wireless technology, Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) is one of the recent technologies that are used to obtain an efficient performance in antenna. In this project a research has been done on the hybrid DRA whereby it consists of cylindrical dielectric resonator and micro-strip patch resonator. The design of the Dual Band Hybrid DRA is created and simulated using the Computer Simulation Technology (CST) software to achieve the desired bandwidth. Parametric studies of the proposed configuration were carried out to characterize the antennas and to verify the simulation result. The expectation of the dual band hybrid DRA is to obtain a wider bandwidth with an operating frequency range at 2.4 GHz to 2.6 GHz and 5 GHz to 6 GHz. To demonstrate the idea, the wireless area network (WLAN) within Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band is used to design the Hybrid antenna.