Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2008
Session Number:4C34
Session:
Number:4C34-4
A Four-Arm Planar Monopole Antenna for Smart Phone Applications
Wan-Lin Chang, Tzyh-Ghuang Ma,
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Publication Date:2008/10/27
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
The interests in developing compact antennas for smart mobile phones have been raised dramatically in recent years [1]-[3]. A smart phone integrates multiple wireless services into a single handheld unit and deeply urges for a compact multiband antenna element for covering all the operating bands. Various printed monopole antennas for dual band or multi-band applications have been proposed in the literature [4], [5]. In this paper, we propose a new four-arm planar monopole antenna for multi-band operation. According to the experimental results, the proposed design covers the frequency bands including the 900-MHz GSM, 1800-MHz DCS and 2.4-/5.2-/5.8-GHz WLANs (i.e. IEEE 802.11 a/b/g). The antenna configuration and design concept will be described in Section 2, and the simulated and measured results will be discussed in Section 3. This paper is concluded with a brief summary in Section 4.