Title :
Low profile multi-band antenna for mobile communications
Author :
Calhau, Luis ; Pinho, Pedro
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Eng. de Electron., Telecomun. e de Comput. (DEETC), Inst. Super. de Eng. de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract :
In this paper, the design of low profile antennas by using Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) structures is introduced. Taking advantage of the fact that they can behave as Perfect Magnetic Conductor (PMC), it is shown that these structures exhibit dual band in-phase reflection at WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) bands, the 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz bands. These structures are applied to PIFA (Planar Inverted-F Antenna) and the results show that it is possible to obtain low profile PIFA´s.
Keywords :
Antennas and propagation; Bandwidth; Dual band; Frequency; Metamaterials; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Optical reflection; Periodic structures; Reflector antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2010 Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona, Spain
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6431-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-84-7653-472-4