Novel internal multi-antenna configuration employing folded dipole elements for notebook PC

This paper proposes a novel internal multi-antenna configuration employing folded dipole elements for notebook PCs. We take particular note of the properties of the folded dipole antennas that eliminate the undesired current on the ground plane. Employing folded dipole antennas in a multi-antenna configuration, mounted at the four corners of the upper ground plane of a notebook PC model, resulted in an approximate 5 dB increase in the pattern averaging gain compared to that for inverted-L antennas, which are popularly used as internal antennas equipped in mobile equipment. Furthermore, evaluated results of the multi-antenna performance showed that the proposed quad folded dipole antenna configuration achieves an approximate 6 dB higher beamforming gain and approximately double the MIMO channel capacity, respectively, compared to those for a quad inverted-L antenna configuration with a low correlation coefficient of less than 0.2.