Final Year Project: Design Zigbee Antenna 2.4G

[kurt113]

zigbee antenna

Hello all

I am new here and sorry for stupid questions.

I am now hurrying my final year project

to design antenna for Zigbee
with IE3D


Questions:
1. Which one is good? Dipole, Inverse-F, Patch?

2. What is the antenna special for Zigbee?

3. Is the antenna for Zigbee same as Bluetooth?

4. How can I get some IE3D antenna samples?


Please help..

Thanks


Kurt:|

Added after 12 minutes:

My Uni provides me some selections of substrate

Please see photo for the choices..

Which one is best for designing the Zigbee antenna?



THXX x 10000000

 

[gorkin]

zigbee project

Read some application notes from frescale freescale.com In rf section about zigbee transceiver You can find lot information about design of pcb antennas for 2.4GHz

Gorkin.

 

[henryhd]

zigbee projects

i think zigbee antenna needn't too wide bandwidth so you can use patch or pifa

 

[Sadegh.j]

projects on zigbee

Check out the standard IEEE 802.15.4, there are useful stuff on the antenna. I built an application with it a while ago using CC2430.

A good point to know is that Chipcon has proposed an antenna for zigbee. Check the application note of CC2430. It's very good, I haven't tried it, but I am sure it works.

I can email you the AP if you have any problem downloading it.

Wait wait, I'll attach their design.
Take care

 

[Sadegh.j]

zigbee antenna design

And the values

 

[kwokhinglai]

zigbee chip antenna

Dear Kurt,

Are you come from CityU of Hong Kong ?

I am for the FYP of this year, however, it is the "Antenna for Wimax". Would you mind sending me the reference received 2 years ago ? I am in urgent way at this timing ... ...

Thanks !

 

[mpero]

2.4g antenna design

Normally those printed antennas indicated by ZigBee chip companies present very poor performance.

You should investigate other (bigger) antennas if the range of the Zigbee is too short. I guess patch antenna is Ok (though the small band it has might be a problem). Pifa is also good, but I would go for a 3D one, not printed.