Uniplanar Antenna Design With Adhesive Ground Plane for Laptop WLAN Operation

Author

Sim, Chow-Yen-Desmond ; Hsuan-Yu Chien ; Ching-Her Lee

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Feng Chia Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

Volume

13

fYear

2014

fDate

2014

Firstpage

337

Lastpage

340

Abstract

A small-size (23 ×6 ×0.4 mm³) uniplanar antenna designed for dual-band 2.4/5-GHz wireless local area network (WLAN) operations in laptop applications is proposed. The structure of the proposed antenna is a double-folded monopole type, in which good impedance matching is achieved by loading a tuning stub and a beveled structure into the shorting strip. Here, the ground section (23 × 1.5 mm ²) of the proposed antenna is attached to a small adhesive ground plane (AGP), so that it can be attached to the laptop ground plane without having to perform any manual soldering. Further studies on attaching the proposed antenna to an actual laptop computer have also been experimentally conducted.

Keywords

UHF antennas; impedance matching; laptop computers; microwave antennas; monopole antennas; multifrequency antennas; soldering; wireless LAN; AGP; adhesive ground plane; beveled structure; double-folded monopole antenna; dual-band wireless local area network; frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency 5 GHz; ground section; impedance matching; laptop WLAN operation; laptop computer; shorting strip; soldering; tuning stub; uniplanar antenna; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Microstrip antennas; Portable computers; Wireless LAN; Adhesive ground plane; dual-band; laptop antenna; wireless local area network (WLAN);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2014.2305837

Filename

6746047