Title :
A 2.4-GHz printed meander-line antenna for WLAN applications
Author :
Lin, C.-C. ; Kuo, S.-W. ; Chuang, H.-R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
Abstract :
In WLAN card design, the typical type is the PCMCIA card and many printed antennas have been reported for PCMCIA card applications. Currently, there is a miniaturized WLAN card (about the size of a small portable RAM disk) which uses a USB connection to be plugged into a notebook PC. The USB connecting cable can be bent, and hence the antenna on the WLAN card can have different positions and orientations. The paper presents a 2.4 GHz meander-line printed antenna for WLAN applications. The HFSS 3D EM simulator was used for design simulation. The antenna was fabricated on a double-sided FR-4 printed circuit board for experimental measurements.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; wireless LAN; 2.4 GHz; PCMCIA card; USB connection; WLAN card; notebook PC; printed antennas; printed circuit board; printed meander-line antenna; radiation patterns; Antenna measurements; Circuit simulation; Connectors; Dipole antennas; Polarization; Printed circuits; Radio frequency; Shape; Universal Serial Bus; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2004. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8302-8
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2004.1331948
