Study and design of an integrated GPS and cellular antenna

Author

Doherty, James Daniel ; Shoaib, Imran ; Chen, Xia ; Parini, Clive

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queen Mary Univ. of London, London, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

11-12 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

587

Lastpage

590

Abstract

This paper presents the design, numerical results and discussion on an integrated GPS and cellular antenna. The antenna operates at the two cellular telephone bands of GSM 1800 (1710-1880 MHz) and the 4G 2600 (2500-2690 MHz), and the civilian GPS L1 frequency of 1575 MHz. The proposed antenna configuration is based on integration of a novel dual-band PIFA design that provides the basis for the cellular coverage and a conventional probe-fed circularly polarized patch antenna with truncated corners, which is utilized for the GPS segment. The obtained impedance bandwidth across these operating bands can reach about 34/275/144 MHz for the GPS/GSM 1800/4G 2600 frequency bands, respectively. The radiation performance and an analysis on the integration of the two antennas on a single platform are presented.

Keywords

4G mobile communication; Global Positioning System; UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; planar inverted-F antennas; 4G 2600; GSM 1800; cellular antenna; cellular telephone bands; civilian GPS L1 frequency; dual-band PIFA design; frequency 1575 MHz; frequency 1710 MHz to 1880 MHz; frequency 2500 MHz to 2690 MHz; impedance bandwidth; probe-fed circularly polarized patch antenna; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Dual band; GSM; Global Positioning System; Resonant frequency; 4G; GPS; GSM; PIFA; dual band; global positioning system; integrated; planar inverted-F antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2013 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2013.6711968

Filename

6711968