Title :
Compact diversity antenna for wireless devices
Author :
Ge, Y. ; Esselle, K.P. ; Bird, T.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
A compact diversity antenna, consisting of two E-shaped microstrip patch antennas, is presented. It has a wide bandwidth, covering all frequency bands of 5-6 GHz WLAN systems operating under IEEE 802.11a and HiperLAN2 standards. Corrugations have been introduced to reduce the overall width of the diversity configuration to 54 mm - the width of a standard PCMCIA card. The isolation between the two inputs is greater than 20 dB and the signal correlation is less than 0.2 over all WLAN bands.
Keywords :
broadband antennas; diversity reception; microstrip antenna arrays; wireless LAN; 5 to 6 GHz; 54 mm; E-shaped microstrip patch antennas; HiperLAN2 standards; IEEE 802.11a; WLAN systems; compact diversity antenna; diversity configuration; signal correlation; standard PCMCIA card; wide frequency bandwidths; wireless devices; wireless local area networks;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20056633
