Low-Profile and Planar Antenna Suitable for WLAN/Bluetooth and UWB Applications

Author

Yildirim, Bahadir S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Fatih Univ., Istanbul

Volume

5

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

438

Lastpage

441

Abstract

This letter presents a microstrip-fed antenna that is small, low-profile, planar, and suitable for WLAN/Bluetooth and ultrawideband (UWB) applications. The antenna occupies an area of 16times18 (mm) on a printed circuit board (PCB) and exhibits dual-band operation at 2400-2484 MHz (Bluetooth) and 5150-5825 MHz (IEEE 802.11a and HiperLAN/2) bands with satisfactory radiation properties. The 10-dB return loss bandwidth of the antenna at high-band spans from about 4.5 GHz to about 11 GHz

Keywords

Bluetooth; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; multifrequency antennas; ultra wideband antennas; wireless LAN; 2400 to 2484 MHz; 5150 to 5825 MHz; PCB; UWB applications; WLAN-Bluetooth applications; dual-band operation; low-profile antenna; microstrip-fed antenna; planar antenna; printed circuit board; radiation properties; return loss bandwidth; ultrawideband applications; wireless local area networks; Bluetooth; Dual band; Finite difference methods; Metallization; Microstrip antennas; Mobile antennas; Planar arrays; Time domain analysis; Ultra wideband antennas; Wireless LAN; Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD); WLAN/Bluetooth; planar antennas; ultrawideband (UWB);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2006.883080

Filename

1715664