Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 2006, IEEE
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0123-2
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2006.1711420
