Multiband low profile Modified Inverted-FL strip antenna for 5.2/5.8 GHz WLAN and 5.5 GHz WiMAX applications in laptop computer

Author

Khanam, Farzana ; Mitra, Sathi Rani ; Hossain, M. Shamim ; Karmokar, Debabrata K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Khulna Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Khulna, Bangladesh

fYear

2012

fDate

22-24 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

598

Lastpage

603

Abstract

This paper contains a multiband low profile Modified Inverted-FL (IFL) strip antenna for 5.2/5.8 GHz WLAN and 5.5 GHz WiMAX operations in a laptop computer. The simulation results are analyzed by means of Numerical Electromagnetic Code-2 (4NEC2) software. This antenna covers -10 dB return loss bandwidth of 900 MHz (5150 MHz ~6050 MHz). The antenna provides very high peak gains with lower gain variation in its operating bands. The antenna has suitable omnidirectional radiation characteristics. The dimension of the antenna is 16×18.5 mm², which is very compact in size. So, this low profile antenna is promising to be embedded within the different portable devices employing WiMAX and WLAN applications.

Keywords

WiMax; omnidirectional antennas; wireless LAN; 4NEC2 software; IFL strip antenna; Numerical Electromagnetic Code-2 software; WLAN; WiMAX; frequency 5.2 GHz; frequency 5.5 GHz; frequency 5.8 GHz; frequency 5150 MHz to 6050 MHz; laptop computer; multiband low profile modified inverted-FL strip antenna; omnidirectional radiation characteristics; Inverted-FL antenna (IFL Antenna); Low profile antenna; WLAN; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2012 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chittagong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4833-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCITechn.2012.6509729

Filename

6509729