Name: Waseem Farooq

Reg# 10-TE-128

Wideband miniature G-shaped

antenna for
dual-band WLAN applications

Abstract:-A wideband miniature G-shaped coplanar waveguide fed dualband antenna for a wireless local area network (WLAN) is proposed. The
antenna consists of a G-shaped monopole and a microstrip feedline, which
provide two resonant paths of different lengths to achieve the 2.4 GHz
and 5.2 GHr dual-band operation far WLAN applications. Reasonably
large impendence matching bandwidth and well behaved radiation
pattems have been observed in simulation. Comparison with
measurements also shows good agreement.

Introduction:-Printed monopole antennas have been widely used in

wireless mobile terminals because of their low cost, light weight and
reasonably good performance. Recently, many printed antenna elements
have been designed for wireless local area network (WLAN) applications.
In order to satisfy the 1EEE802. I1 WLAN standards at 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz
bands, some of them adopt primed monopole antennas proposed in [1],[2]
and usually require a shorting pin for ground connection. This will
increase the antenna complexity as well as fabrication cost. In this paper,
a new, simpler type of printed monopole antenna is presented for dualband WLAN operation. The antenna is constructed by a non-conductorbacked G-shaped strip with a microstrip feedline. Generally speaking,
dual-band performance can be quite easily achieved for this fie of
antenna by tuning the length of individual segments of the G-shaped
strip.

Design and Simulation:-Fig. 1 shows two different configurations of

our proposed printed monopole antennas far dual-band operation. An
inexpensive FR4 substrate with thickness of 0.8 mm and relative
permittivity of 4.4 is used in the antenna design. The antenna element is
mainly a G-shaped strip without conductor-backed ground plane. The
specific G-shaped configuration is for the purpose of dual-band
performance. The 50-n microstrip feedline is used to excite such a G-

shaped antenna. It is noted that the microstrip line needs a ground plane
printed on the back side of substrate. The antenna dimensions denoted
in Fig. 1 are optimized with the aid of the simulation soRware AnsoR
HFSS. Antenna 1 in Fig. I(a) is considered as a simplified version of the Gshaped antenna (Antenna 2) as shown in Fig. I(b) without the tuning stub
having length denoted byf, . For design convenience, the strip width ofthe
G-shaped antenna is set at 1.53 mm, the same value as that for a 50-R
microstrip feedline. The G-shaped antenna owns two different
resonantpaths with length,L,=P,+P,+f,+P, andL2=P,tP,.Such two different
lengths arc chosen close to quarter wavelength at 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz,
respectively. Tuning the length LI can fix the antenna resonance in the 2.4
GHz band, while tuning the other length Li aims to fix another antenna
resonance in the 5.2 GHz band. To increase the impedance matching
bandwidth, an overall adjustment of the geometrical parameters,
(I,,4,,1,,I,,h,)and(Y,,P,,h,,h,),isp~rformedforthe2.4GHzand5.2 GHz band,
respectively. It can be found from Fig. 2 that the additional hming stub
with length!, in Antenna 2 is quite effective to enlarge bandwidth of the
5.2 GHz band.

Measured Results and Discussion:-The G-shaped antenna as

shown in Fig. I(b) was implemented and measured. Fig. 3 compares the
simulated and measured return losses. Both
results show good agreement. It can be clearly seen that two resonant
modes are excited at the 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz WLAN bands. The IOdB bandwidth of return loss for the lower and higher resonant mode
reaches 370 MHz (2.25-2.62 GHz) and 1.06 GHz (4.94-6 GHz),
respectively, which can satisfy the requirements of WLAN operation. Fig.
4 plotted the simulated radiation pattems in the xy. XL, and yz planes
for the proposed G-shaped antenna operating at both 2.4 GHz and 5.2
GHz. Although the resulting H-plane pattem at 5.2 GHz is not as omnidirectional as that at 2.4 GHz, the proposed G-shaped antenna still shows
sufticiently low gains at both bands to be suited to mobile terminals. The
calculated peak antenna gains are 2.39 dBi and 3.43 dBi at 2.4 GHz and
5.2 GHz, respectively.

Conclusions:-The dual-band performance is achieved by the specific

G-shaped configuration to excite two resonant modes using two different
paths of resonance. From the good agreement between simulation and
measurement, the proposed antenna has been verified to be good for the 2.4

GHz and 5.2 GHa dual-band WLAN mobile terminal.

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References:-[I] Y. L. Kuo, T. W. Chiou, and K. L. Wong, "A novel dualband printed inverted-F antenna," Micmwove Opf. Technol. Left., "01.3 I,
pp. 253-355, Dec., 2001.
[2] I. Y. Ian and L. C. Tseng, "Planar monopole antennas for 2.415.2 GHz
dual-band application," in IEEE AP-S Int. Sy". Dig, 2003, pp.158-161