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Small‐size WWAN monopole slot antenna with dual‐band band‐stop matching circuit for tablet computer application
Author(s) -
Wong KinLu,
Ma PeiJi
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.26723
Subject(s) - multi band device , umts frequency bands , microwave , electrical engineering , slot antenna , microstrip , bandwidth (computing) , magnetic monopole , physics , microstrip antenna , optoelectronics , antenna (radio) , engineering , electronic engineering , telecommunications , quantum mechanics
A monopole slot antenna printed on a small‐size FR4 substrate of 40 × 10 mm 2 to provide two wide operating bands of 824–960 and 1710–2170 MHz for the wireless wide area network operation in the tablet computer is presented. The monopole slot is folded to achieve a compact configuration and is fed by a microstrip feedline loaded with a dual‐band band‐stop matching circuit on the same FR4 substrate. The band‐stop matching circuit can generate two separate parallel resonances at about 1050 and 2250 MHz, which respectively leads to additional resonance occurred nearby the resonant frequencies of the quarter‐wavelength slot mode at about 850 MHz and higher‐order slot mode at about 1900 MHz, thereby resulting in dual‐resonance excitation of the two excited slot modes to respectively cover the GSM850/900 and GSM1800/1900/UMTS operation. The bandwidth‐enhancement technique of using a dual‐band band‐stop matching circuit is reported for the first time in published articles, and its detailed operating principle is described in this study. Performances of the proposed antenna are also discussed. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 54:875–879, 2012; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26723