A Spiral-Shaped Printed Monopole Antenna for Mobile Communications

Author

Ge, Yuehe ; Esselle, Karu P. ; Bird, Trevor S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW

fYear

2006

fDate

9-14 July 2006

Firstpage

3681

Lastpage

3684

Abstract

A planar monopole antenna consisting of a printed metal strip of rectangular spiral shape is studied. The spiral generates two resonance modes and radiates at two frequency bands. An example design is given where the lower operating band covers the GSM900 band, and the upper operating band covers DCS1800, PCS 1900 and UMTS2000 bands. This multi-band antenna is compact and lightweight and it can be fabricated at very low cost by etching the spiral on an FR4/Epoxy substrate and feeding with a 50Omega microstrip line

Keywords

3G mobile communication; antenna feeds; cellular radio; microstrip antennas; microstrip lines; monopole antennas; multifrequency antennas; resonance; spiral antennas; 50 ohm; FR4-Epoxy substrate; antenna feeds; microstrip line; mobile communications; multi-band antenna; planar monopole antenna; printed metal strip; rectangular spiral shape; resonance modes; spiral-shaped printed monopole antenna; Antenna feeds; Costs; Frequency; Microstrip antennas; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Personal communication networks; Resonance; Shape; Spirals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 2006, IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0123-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2006.1711420

Filename

1711420