A dual-band monopole antenna for mobile communications

Author

Ge, Yuehe ; Esselle, Karu P. ; Bird, Trevor S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2005

fDate

3-7 April 2005

Firstpage

971

Lastpage

974

Abstract

In this paper, a dual-band, compact, lightweight and low-cost surface-mount monopole antenna is proposed. This antenna can generate two separate resonant modes and operate in two frequency bands. The antenna has a monopole configuration, obtained by folding a metallic strip onto a low profile rectangular foam base, and is mounted on a substrate. It is fed by a 50 Ω microstrip line. A prototype of the proposed antenna has been fabricated and tested. The lower band covers the GSM900 band, and the upper band covers both DCS 1800 and PCS 1900 bands.

Keywords

antenna feeds; antenna testing; microstrip antennas; microstrip lines; mobile antennas; mobile communication; monopole antennas; multifrequency antennas; DCS 1800; GSM900 band; PCS 1900; compact antenna; dual-band monopole antenna; low-cost surface-mount monopole antenna; metallic strip; microstrip line; mobile communications; Distributed control; Dual band; Frequency; Microstrip; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Personal communication networks; Prototypes; Resonance; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Applied Computational Electromagnetics, 2005. IEEE/ACES International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9068-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCACEM.2005.1469745

Filename

1469745