Compact, Slotted, Printed Antennas for Dual-Band Communication in Future Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 1

Settings applied to the FIT-TS solver [32, 33] during the simulations of the slotted PIFAs.

Slotted PIFA simulation setup
Excitation signal	Gaussian pulse, DC-7 GHz
Spatial discretization	Hexahedral, nonuniform
Convergence condition	40 dB energy decay
Maximum cell size at 𝑓max	𝜆min/20
Absorbing boundary conditions	4-layer PML
Minium distance to PML boundary	𝜆3GHz/8
Computational complexity,; (D-)(G)K2	(370–385) ×10^3 Yee cells
Computational complexity, MK2	495×10^3 Yee cells