Performance Analysis of an Extended Sierpinski Gasket Fractal Antenna
for mmwave Femtocells Applications
Abstract
A performance study on design and analysis of an extended sierpinski
gasket fractal antenna for mm-wave femtocell applications were
implemented. The initial analysis includes the design of different
stages of basic sierpinski gasket fractal antenna and its performance
characteristics like reflection coefficient, gain, and efficiency. The
size of the basic equilateral triangle patch is around 5.193mm. The
antenna is designed on Arlon Di-clad 880 mm substrate materials with the
thickness 0.508mm and dielectric constant 2.2. The proposed antenna
efficiently operates at frequencies from 24GHz to 61GHz with reflection
coefficient values -10dB to -32dB. The simulated gains in dB values at
resonant frequencies are from 02 to 16dB with almost 100% radiation
efficiency. Later on, this design was extended and analyzed at different
levels concerning various performance metrics. The designed extended
sierpinski fractal antenna was radiated with the maximum electric field
in a particular direction indicating directional antenna at various feed
positions. The study shows that an extended Sierpinski fractal antenna
had similar performance with three separately feeding positions. The
proposed antenna can work with 5G femtocell applications where Femto
base stations need miniaturized antennas for indoor communications.