EBG PIFA design for WLAN applications

Author

Luo, Qi ; Salgado, Henrique M. ; Pereira, José R.

Author_Institution

INESC Porto, Porto

fYear

2008

fDate

5-11 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper proposes a new low profile dual band WLAN planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) by using electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) material as ground plane. The total thickness of this antenna is only 4 mm, which is half of the height when a normal perfect electric conductor (PEC) ground plane is used. The backward radiation ratio is also reduced as the existence of EBG. Moreover, the bandwidth for the 5 GHz band is increased by 10 times compared to the reference antenna. This EBG PIFA is built on the ground plane with size of 40times62 mm, which is suitable for most of the mobile devices.

Keywords

conductors (electric); mobile radio; photonic band gap; ultra wideband antennas; wireless LAN; EBG PIFA design; WLAN; backward radiation ratio; electromagnetic band-gap material; mobile devices; perfect electric conductor ground plane; planar inverted-F antenna; reference antenna; Bandwidth; Conducting materials; Dual band; Frequency; Metamaterials; Periodic structures; Solid modeling; Surface impedance; Surface waves; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2041-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2042-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2008.4619320

Filename

4619320