Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2010
Session Number:3TB2
Session:
Number:3TB2-3
A Compact Monopole Antenna for WLAN Operation
Wen-Shan Chen, Yu-Ming Huang, Po-Yuan Chang,
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Publication Date:2010/11/23
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Recently, the multi-band antennas have inspired high interest for communication systems. Wireless local area network (WLAN) technology is a wireless communication standard, which is operating range in the lower band from 2.4 to 2.484 GHz (IEEE 802.11b/g) and higher band from 5.15 to 5.825 GHz (IEEE 802.11a). In recent years, the printed monopole antennas are arresting, because they have the advantages of easy to fabricate, simple structure, low cost, and low profile. Another advantage of the printed slot antenna is easily to integrate in active component or MMIC, so many monopole antennas in the literature have been proposed [1-5]. The antenna proposed in [1] is the typical microstrip-fed printed monopole antenna, which uses double-T structure to achieve the dual band. In [2], the triple-band microstrip antenna is uses two one-quarter wavelength resonating components. In [3], the compact dual-band monopole antenna has two rectangular elements having different shapes to achieve dual-band for WLAN operation. In [4], the geometry of meander monopole antenna used two strips with the same width and different lengths to resonance 2.4GHz band and 5GHz band. The proposed antenna in [5] is a CPW-fed microstrip monopole antenna, which uses a C-shape structure to obtain the dual-band and broadband. In this paper, a novel compact design of monopole antenna for WLAN operation has been proposed. The dual-bands antenna can cover the standard IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n (2.4- 2.484 GHz, and 5.15-5.825 GHz) for WLAN application and will be presented and discussed in this paper.