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Miniaturized hexaband meandered PIFA antenna using three meandered‐shaped slits
Author(s) -
Tang ITseng,
Lin DingBing,
Chen WenLi,
Horng JuiHong
Publication year - 2008
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.23292
Subject(s) - microstrip antenna , omnidirectional antenna , electrical engineering , planar , wimax , patch antenna , microwave , folded inverted conformal antenna , antenna (radio) , coaxial antenna , physics , engineering , acoustics , electronic engineering , telecommunications , wireless , computer science , computer graphics (images)
A novel and compact hexaband meandered planar inverted‐F antenna with three meandered‐shaped slits is proposed, designed, and implemented. The proposed meandered PIFA antenna occupies a volume of 40 × 20 × 8 mm 3 , the top meandered patch radiator embedded with three simple meandered‐shaped slits, which separates the top meandered patch into four resonant paths to generate four resonant modes. The proposed hexaband antenna operates at covering the GSM‐900, GPS‐1575, DCS‐1800, PCS‐1900, ISM (2.400–2.4835 GHz), and WiMAX (2.305–2.69 GHz) bands for VSWR ≤ 2.5, and also more efficiently reduces 50% of the conventional meandered patch antenna size and broadens operational bandwidth. This compact low‐profile design shows characteristics of near‐omnidirectional radiation patterns with minimal hand effects, which is preferable for applications in wireless mobile communications. A good agreement between measurement and simulation is achieved. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 1022–1025, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23292