Reduced Ground-Plane Effect UWB Antenna and Application for Laptop Computers (Invited)

Author

Chen, Zhi Ning ; See, Terence S P

Author_Institution

Radio Syst. Dept., Inst. for Infocomm Res., Singapore

fYear

2006

fDate

14-17 Nov. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, the concept of reduced ground-plane effect is proposed in the design of small ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas for portable devices. The antenna is designed with a notch cut from the radiator, which concentrates most of the electric currents on the upper radiator at lower operating frequencies. A short strip is used to further reduce the size of the notched antenna. Next, the design is applied to a laptop computer. The antenna designed for wireless universal serial bus (W-USB) dongle installed on a laptop computer shows the advantage of a significant suppression of lossy object/ground-plane effects on the impedance and radiation characteristics of the antenna

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; electric impedance; laptop computers; mobile antennas; ultra wideband antennas; UWB; W-USB; electric current; ground-plane effects; impedance characteristics; laptop computer; notched antenna; portable device; radiation characteristics; radiator; ultra-wideband antenna; wireless universal serial bus; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer applications; Current; Frequency; Impedance; Portable computers; Shape; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2006. 2006 IEEE Region 10 Conference

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0548-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0549-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2006.343986

Filename

4142178