Small-size internal antenna for LTE/WWAN operation in the laptop computer

A new antenna structure of internal LTE/WWAN laptop computer antenna formed by a coupled-fed loop antenna connected with two branch radiators is presented. The two branch radiators consist of one longer strip and one shorter strip, both contributing multi-resonant modes to enhance the bandwidth of the antenna. The antenna´s lower band is formed by a dual-resonant mode mainly contributed by the longer branch strip, while the upper band is formed by three resonant modes contributed respectively by one higher-order resonant mode of the longer branch strip, one resonant mode of the coupled-fed loop antenna alone, and one resonant mode of the shorter branch strip. The antenna´s lower and upper bands can therefore cover the desired 698~960 and 1710~2690 MHz bands, respectively. The proposed antenna is suitable to be mounted at the top shielding metal wall of the display ground of the laptop computer and occupies a small volume of 4 × 10 × 75 mm³ above the top shielding metal wall, which makes it promising to be embedded inside the casing of the laptop computer as an internal antenna.