A cost-efficient printed Planar Inverted-F Antenna (PIFA) design via selective antenna area thickening/thinning for mobile devices

Author

Pongpaibool, P. ; Wallada, W. ; Siwamogsatham, S.

Author_Institution

Nat. Electron. & Comput. Technol. Center, Pathumthani, Thailand

fYear

2014

fDate

7-10 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

731

Lastpage

734

Abstract

In this paper, we present a cost-efficient printed multi-zone printed Planar Inverted-F Antenna (PIFA) structure based on a selective antenna area dimensioning design approach. In the proposed design, the top plate and the ground plane of PIFA both contain some relatively small triangle-shape areas located near the feed point. These small feed areas are made significantly thicker than other antenna areas. The simulation results show that the proposed PIFA design can considerably reduce the amount of conductive ink required to produce the antenna by as much as 60%.

Keywords

antenna feeds; microstrip antennas; mobile antennas; planar inverted-F antennas; conductive ink; cost-efficient printed planar inverted-F antenna design; feed point; ground plane; mobile devices; printed PIFA design; printed multizone printed PIFA structure; selective antenna area dimensioning design approach; selective antenna area thickening; selective antenna area thinning; top plate; triangle-shape area; Antenna feeds; Dipole antennas; Grounding; Ink; Mobile antennas; PIFA; low-cost antenna design; printed antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (GCCE), 2014 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GCCE.2014.7031327

Filename

7031327