Title :
Multiband miniature coplanar waveguide slot antennas for GSM-802.11b and 802.11b-802.11a wireless applications
Author :
Angelopoulos, Evangelos S. ; Stratakos, Yorgos E. ; Kostaridis, Antonis I. ; Kaklamani, Dimitra I. ; Uzunoglu, Nikolaos K.
Author_Institution :
HELIC S.A., Athens, Greece
Abstract :
The design and development of two novel dual-band coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed slot antennas for broadband wireless applications is presented. The first antenna operates in GSM (1.7-1.9 GHz) and IEEE 802.11b (2.4-2.5 GHz WLAN) frequency bands, while the second antenna operates in the 802.11b (2.4-2.5 GHz) and 802.11b (5.1-5.9 GHz) frequency bands. These antennas are aimed to cover the gap in the multiband wireless applications domain. Simulation work has been performed using commercially available three-dimensional electromagnetic tools and prototypes have been built in order to explore the actual performance of these two antennas. Satisfactory agreement in simulation and experimental results is shown. These antennas can easily be attached on the backplane of PDAs, smartphones or notebooks, to meet users´ needs for wireless connectivity in a small form factor.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; cellular radio; multifrequency antennas; slot antennas; wireless LAN; 1.7 to 1.9 GHz; 2.4 to 2.5 GHz; 5.1 to 5.9 GHz; GSM; IEEE 802.11a; IEEE 802.11b; WLAN; broadband wireless applications; coplanar antennas; multiband miniature coplanar waveguide antenna; multiband wireless applications; slot antennas; Backplanes; Broadband antennas; Coplanar waveguides; Dual band; Electromagnetic waveguides; Frequency; GSM; Slot antennas; Virtual prototyping; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking, 2003. WCNC 2003. 2003 IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7700-1
DOI :
10.1109/WCNC.2003.1200328
