Compact Multibranch Inverted-F Antenna to be Embedded in a Laptop Computer for LTE/WWAN/IMT-E Applications

Author

Hu, Chuan-Ling ; Huang, De-Lun ; Kuo, Huang-Lin ; Yang, Chang-Fa ; Liao, Chang-Lun ; Lin, Shun-Tian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

9

fYear

2010

fDate

7/2/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

838

Lastpage

841

Abstract

A multibranch inverted-F antenna with multiband operations for long-term evolution (LTE), pentaband wireless wide area network (WWAN) and IMT-E (2.6 GHz) applications is presented. The antenna consists of multibranch strips and is fabricated on a direct bond copper (DBC) substrate, which has a compact size of 96 (L) × 11.2 (W) × 0.5 (H) mm³ to be embedded in the laptop computer as an internal antenna. Three operating bands covering 663-993, 1689-2190, and 2449-2783 MHz for the LTE, GSM850/900 and DCS/PCS/UMTS, and IMT-E systems are achieved with good radiation efficiencies. The proposed antenna can be embedded in the laptop computer for the LTE, WWAN, and IMT-E applications.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; antenna radiation patterns; cellular radio; laptop computers; planar inverted-F antennas; wide area networks; GSM850/900; IMT-E; LTE; WWAN; antenna radiation efficiency; compact multibranch inverted-F antenna; direct bond copper substrate; frequency 1689 MHz to 2190 MHz; frequency 2449 MHz to 2783 MHz; frequency 663 MHz to 993 MHz; laptop computer; long-term evolution; multibranch strips; pentaband wireless wide area network; 3G mobile communication; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Frequency measurement; Portable computers; Strips; IMT-E; laptop computer; long-term evolution (LTE); multibranch inverted-F antenna; wireless wide area network (WWAN);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2010.2069079

Filename

5555927