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Compact, printed, dual‐feed, shorted monopole antenna for concurrent 2.4‐ and 5‐GHz WLAN operation
Author(s) -
Su SaouWen
Publication year - 2012
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.26502
Subject(s) - monopole antenna , ground plane , j pole antenna , decoupling (probability) , electrical engineering , random wire antenna , bent molecular geometry , multi band device , magnetic monopole , antenna (radio) , physics , dipole antenna , coaxial antenna , acoustics , engineering , structural engineering , periscope antenna , quantum mechanics , control engineering
A compact and printed monopole antenna having two feeding ports to operate in the 2.4‐ and 5‐GHz bands respectively for concurrent dual‐band operation is proposed.The monopole and the ground plane thereof were formed on a single‐layered FR4 substrate of thickness 1 mm and with the dimensions 30 mm × 37 mm. The main radiating element is of a bent, two‐branched strip monopole, placed 2 mm away from the antenna ground. Each branch provides one resonant path such that two operating bands are generated. It was found that by feeding the monopole on the opposite sides with two shorting portions set therein between, the single antenna can be excited by the 2.4‐ and 5‐GHz radio signals at the same time with the port decoupling below −20 dB. The antenna is simple in structure and has constant strip width. Details of the design prototypes are discussed in the article. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 54:188–193, 2012; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26502