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A folded metal‐plate monopole antenna for multiband operation of a PDA phone
Author(s) -
Lin ChiaChing,
Tung HaoChun,
Chen HongTwu,
Wong KinLu
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.11149
Subject(s) - monopole antenna , umts frequency bands , electrical engineering , gsm , engineering , antenna (radio) , microwave , mobile phone , electronic engineering , acoustics , physics , telecommunications
Abstract A novel monopole antenna, constructed easily by folding a simple metal plate, is presented. The folded metal‐plate monopole antenna shows a compact size of 10 × 10 × 70 mm 3 and has three wide impedance bandwidths at about 0.9, 2.0, and 5.0 GHz, thus covering the operating bandwidths of most of the present‐day mobile communication systems (AMPS, GSM, DCS, PCS, and UMTS) and the WLAN systems in the 2.4/5.2/5.8‐GHz bands. With the antenna performance obtained, the proposed antenna is suitable for application in a PDA phone for both mobile communications and WLAN applications. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 39: 135–138, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.11149