Low Cost Meander Line Chip Monopole Antenna

Author

Lee, Mike W. K. ; Leung, K.W. ; Chow, Yung Leonard

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China

Volume

62

Issue

1

fYear

2014

fDate

Jan. 2014

Firstpage

442

Lastpage

445

Abstract

A method for miniaturizing a chip antenna is presented in this communication. It uses a folded meander line and therefore the length is half. Also, two upper and lower loading patches are used to improve the performance of the chip antenna. The chip antenna has been miniaturized to 3.2 × 1.6 × 0.83 mm³ at resonance measured frequencies of 2.45 GHz and 2.73 GHz with and without external matching, respectively. An economic fabrication method for the chip antenna is discussed. It uses an inexpensive multilayer PCB with two low-cost prepregs and a common laminate. Only two plated-through holes are needed for the whole design. Good agreement between the simulated and measured results is observed.

Keywords

ceramic packaging; microstrip antennas; monopole antennas; economic fabrication method; external matching; folded meander line; frequency 2.45 GHz; frequency 2.73 GHz; loading patches; low cost meander line chip monopole antenna; plated through holes; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Copper; Fabrication; Loading; Nonhomogeneous media; Semiconductor device measurement; Chip antenna; core; loading patch; meander line antenna; prepreg;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2013.2287518

Filename

6648649