Title :
The Transparent Monopole Antenna for WCDMA and WLAN
Author :
Lee, Chen-Tin ; Lee, Chien-Ming ; Luo, Ching-Hsing
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Nanotechnol. & Microsyst. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan
Abstract :
The transparent monopole antenna is proposed for wireless local area network (WLAN) in 5.2 GHz and wide-band code-division multiple-access (WCDMA) applications. In general, most of antennas in use now are fabricated on FR-4 PCB board or other microwave substrates. But in this design, the proposed antenna is fabricated on a thin polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic coated by indium tin oxide (ITO), and has following characteristics: flexible, transparent, small, light volume, and wide bandwidth of 0.42GHz at 1.97 GHz, 1.19 GHz at 5.58GHz. (return loss les - 10dB)
Keywords :
UHF antennas; code division multiple access; indium compounds; microwave antennas; plastics; tin compounds; wireless LAN; 0.42 GHz; 1.19 GHz; 1.97 GHz; 5.2 GHz; InSnO; WCDMA; WLAN; thin polyethylene terephthalate plastic; transparent monopole antenna; wide-band code-division multiple-access; wireless local area network; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Indium tin oxide; Loss measurement; Microstrip antennas; Multiaccess communication; Plastic films; Polyethylene; Substrates; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, 2006. WAMICON '06. IEEE Annual
Conference_Location :
Clearwater Beach, FL
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0849-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0849-0
DOI :
10.1109/WAMICON.2006.351948
