Multiband miniature coplanar waveguide slot antennas for GSM-802.11b and 802.11b-802.11a wireless applications

Author

Angelopoulos, Evangelos S. ; Stratakos, Yorgos E. ; Kostaridis, Antonis I. ; Kaklamani, Dimitra I. ; Uzunoglu, Nikolaos K.

Author_Institution

HELIC S.A., Athens, Greece

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

20-20 March 2003

Firstpage

103

Abstract

The design and development of two novel dual-band coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed slot antennas for broadband wireless applications is presented. The first antenna operates in GSM (1.7-1.9 GHz) and IEEE 802.11b (2.4-2.5 GHz WLAN) frequency bands, while the second antenna operates in the 802.11b (2.4-2.5 GHz) and 802.11b (5.1-5.9 GHz) frequency bands. These antennas are aimed to cover the gap in the multiband wireless applications domain. Simulation work has been performed using commercially available three-dimensional electromagnetic tools and prototypes have been built in order to explore the actual performance of these two antennas. Satisfactory agreement in simulation and experimental results is shown. These antennas can easily be attached on the backplane of PDAs, smartphones or notebooks, to meet users´ needs for wireless connectivity in a small form factor.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; cellular radio; multifrequency antennas; slot antennas; wireless LAN; 1.7 to 1.9 GHz; 2.4 to 2.5 GHz; 5.1 to 5.9 GHz; GSM; IEEE 802.11a; IEEE 802.11b; WLAN; broadband wireless applications; coplanar antennas; multiband miniature coplanar waveguide antenna; multiband wireless applications; slot antennas; Backplanes; Broadband antennas; Coplanar waveguides; Dual band; Electromagnetic waveguides; Frequency; GSM; Slot antennas; Virtual prototyping; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking, 2003. WCNC 2003. 2003 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA, USA

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7700-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2003.1200328

Filename

1200328