Title :
Small and thin Inverted-F Antenna with insensitive ground plane for mobile handsets
Author :
AbuTarboush, Hattan F. ; Nilavalan, R. ; Peter, T. ; Chuang, S.W.
Author_Institution :
Wireless Networks & Commun. Centre (WNCC), Brunel Univ., London, UK
Abstract :
A small ultr-thin tri-band Planar Inverted-F Antenna (PIFA) is presented. The proposed antenna consists of slotted radiated parts supported by shorting walls and a ground plane. Intensive investigations are carried out in this paper to show that the ground plane and the antenna locations have insignificant effect on the performance of the antenna while the physical height of the radiated parts can be more significant. The radiated parts occupied a total size of 26 × 25.6 × 3.57 mm3. It designed to operate at UMTS, m-WiMAX and 5 GHz WLAN bands. Simulated and measured results are in good agreements.
Keywords :
mobile antennas; mobile handsets; planar inverted-F antennas; slot antennas; insensitive ground plane; mobile handsets; planar inverted-F antenna; slotted radiated parts; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Mobile antennas; Mobile handsets; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2010 Loughborough
Conference_Location :
Loughborough
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7304-5
DOI :
10.1109/LAPC.2010.5666793
