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This document presents a printed L-shaped monopole antenna for dual-band operation at 2.4/5.2 GHz. The antenna consists of an L-shaped strip printed on a microwave substrate and fed by a microstrip line. The longer arm of the L-shaped strip controls the lower resonant mode at 2.4 GHz, while the shorter arm generates the upper resonant mode at 5.2 GHz. Measurements show the antenna achieves 390 MHz and 650 MHz bandwidths at 2.4 and 5.2 GHz respectively, covering both WLAN and HIPERLAN systems. Gains of 2.2 dBi and 3.9 dBi were measured at 2.4 and 5.2 GHz.

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This document presents a printed L-shaped monopole antenna for dual-band operation at 2.4/5.2 GHz. The antenna consists of an L-shaped strip printed on a microwave substrate and fed by a microstrip line. The longer arm of the L-shaped strip controls the lower resonant mode at 2.4 GHz, while the shorter arm generates the upper resonant mode at 5.2 GHz. Measurements show the antenna achieves 390 MHz and 650 MHz bandwidths at 2.4 and 5.2 GHz respectively, covering both WLAN and HIPERLAN systems. Gains of 2.2 dBi and 3.9 dBi were measured at 2.4 and 5.2 GHz.

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Printed Monopole Antenna for ;!.4/5.

2 GHz Dual-band
Operation

'Hua-Ming Chenl, Yi-Fang Linl


'Department of Physics
National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences
Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
E-mail: [email protected]:uas.edu.tw

Introduction
The rapid developments in the wireless communications industry
demand novel designs that can be used in more than one frequency band
and in size reduction. Wireless local area network (WLAN), wireless
printers and the PCMCIA card all utilize the 2.4 GHz band. It will be
soon followed by the 5.2 GHz technologies; HIPERLAN and IEEE
802.1 la will have dramatic effects in the near future. IEEE 802.1 1
WLAN standards specify the operating bands as WLAN (2400-2484
MHz) and HIPERLAN (5 150-5350 MHz:). For wireless communication,
a dual frequency antenna is needed for simultaneously transmitting and
receiving these two bands. To meet the requirements for the 2.4/5.2 GHz
applications, some printed novel antennas [l, 21 are reported. The
antenna in [ 11 uses a microstrip-fed double-sided printed dipole antenna,
which is embedded inside the cover of a laptop computer. The antenna
radiates bi-directionally and has its dipole length near one wavelength.
The 10 dB bandwidths achieved were 18.'7 and 7.7% at 2.4 and 5.2 GHz,
respectively. The antenna in [2] is constructed by folding a planar
monopole, made of a copper plate, into a rectangular-disk-like structure.
The length of main resonant path is about 34% of the wavelength at 2.4
GHz, which is larger than one-quarter wavelength at resonant for a
conventional straight monopole antenna. The 10 dB bandwidths
achieved were 5.3 and 8.1%at 2.4 and 5.2 GHz, respectively.
Presented in this Letter is a new microstrip-fed dual frequency
printed L-shaped monopole antenna, which can be used in one radiating
element with two operating frequencies in the 2.4 and 5.2 GHz bands.
The length of the antenna's larger strip can controls the lower operating
mode of the propose antenna, while the length of the smaller strip is
designed to generate a resonant mode for the upper operating mode at
5.2 GHz. The proposed antenna can easily be excited by a 5042
microstrip line, good impedance matching can be obtained for operating
frequencies within both the WLAN and HIPERLAN bands.

Antenna Configuration
The structure of the microstrip-fed uniplanar L-shaped monopole

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antenna is shown in Fig. 1, which is printed on a microwave substrate of
thickness h and relative permittivity &? A smaller metallic strip is cut at
the upper right comer of the radiating strip ( L , x L2), resulting in an
L-shaped strip. The width of the longer arm on the L-shaped strip is
denoted as W and the short arm has a width of L. The truncated ground
plane, having an area of 50 x 20 mm2, on the backside of the substrate
is used as a reflector element. A 5 0 4 microstrip line is used for feeding
at the position (0 mm, 3.16 mm, 1.6 mm) in this study, that generate two
different linear polarization resonant modes, i.e. the dual linear
polarization antenna can easily be excited by the microstrip line fed
away froin the center of the L-shaped strip. In order to reduce
experimental cut-and-try design cycles, the simulation software IE3D [3]
is used to guide fabrication. Fig. 2 shows the simulated distribution of
electric currents for two excited modes at the L-shaped strip. From Fig.
2a, at the low frequency VI),the electric currents flow, mainly along the
z-direction, from point C to point D. Fig. 2b shows the case at high
frequency U]), the currents flow, almost along y-direction, from point E
to point F. Also note that the two excited modes are both designed to be
operated as a quarter-wavelength resonant length in the proposed
antenna, i.e. the total length LI+L2 -WR -LR of the larger strip and the
length L2 of the smaller one can be determined from the quarter
wavelength 0f.f; a n d h , respectively. It is clear that, by decreasing the
width of W or the width of L , the resonant length offl increases, and it
does not affect the resonant length off2. That is, the low frequency VI)
decreases when both the width of W and L are reduced. It is also been
found that, impedance matching for both operating frequencies can be
obtained by adjusting the width of Wand the width of L.

Experimental Results and Discussions


Based on the proposed design described above, a prototype for WLAN
and HIPERLAN operations was constructed and studied. For achieving
WLAN operation, the resonant length L,+L2 -- WD -LR was chosen to
be about 3 1 inm, which corresponds to be about 0.25 wavelengths at 2.4
GHz. As for HIPERLAN operation, the resonant length L2 was designed
to be 13.64 mm, which corresponds to be about 0.24 wavelengths at 5.2
GHz. Thus, in this proposed design, the dimension of L-shaped strip is
L , = 24.16 mm, L2 = 13.64 mm, L = 3.16 mm and W = 9.48 mm. Fig. 3
shows the measured and simulated retum loss of the constructed
prototype. These measured frequencies are quite close to those of the
IE3D simulation results. The obtained bandwidth (1: 1.5 VSWR) reaches
390 MHz (2300-2690 MHz) and 650 MHz (4830-5480 MHz) for the
lower and upper operating bands, respectively. The obtained bandwidths
cover both the WLAN and HIPERLAN systems. The antenna gains at
2.45 and 5.25 GHz are illustrated in Fig. 4a and b, respectively. It is
seen that, at 2.4 GHz band, the measured peak gain was about 2.2 dBi,
while that for the 5.2 GHz band was about 3.9 dBi. For both bands,

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small gain variations are also observed.

References
[ I ] Y. H. Suh and K. Chang, “Low cost microstrip-fed dual frequency
printed dipole antenna for wireless communications, ” Electron Lett.,
vol. 36, pp. 1177-1 179,2000.
[2] F. S. Chang and K. L. Wong, “Planar monopole folded into a
rectangular-disk-like structure as surface-mountable antenna for
2.415.2-GHz dual-band operation,” Microwave Opt Techno1 Lett.
Vol. 34, pp. 166-169,2002.
[3] IE3D user’s manual, Zeland Software, Inc., Aug. 1998.

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