A COMPACT MULTIBAND ANTENNA FOR WLAN AND WiMAX APPLICATIONS

作者:Wang, Chen*; Xu, Ping; Li, Bo; Yan, Ze-Hong
来源:Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 2011, 53(9): 2016-2018.
DOI:10.1002/mop.26183

摘要

A compact printed monopole antenna applied to wireless local area network (WLAN) and worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) applications is proposed. By combining a C-shaped strip and two L-shaped strips, fed by a 50-Omega microstrip transmission line, multiple impedance bandwidths covering WLAN/2.4/5.2/5.8 and WiMAX/3.5 are obtained. Further, the proposed antenna occupies a small size of 35 x 20 mm(2), and has good radiation characteristic and peak gains to be 2.77, 2.92, and 3.04 dBi at 2.45, 3.5, and 5.5 GHz, respectively.