Modern mobile terminals require small and thin design.

“Motivation “

The spacing required for conventional PIFA about 7 mm ~ 12 mm between the antenna and
the substrate to achieve the sufficient operating bandwidth, is not suitable for modern mobile

Conventional PIFAs comprise: a top patch, a shorting

pin, and a feeding pin.

The antenna, which is proposed mounted on the top edge of the printed circuit board (PCB)
The dielectric constant of the PCB used here is 4.4 and the thickness is 1.58 mm.
As indicated in Fig. this design comprises a direct-feed dual band main resonator with two
branches (A) and (B), and two parasitic elements (C) and (D) excited by electromagnetic
coupling, to achieve multiband operation.
• Variations of IFA Antenna height H cause some effects on bandwidth shifting.

LF: horizontal length from the

feed point to open end of the
antenna

LB: horizontal length from the

feed point to closed end of
the antenna
 FR-4
Substrate
GSM900 Band UTMS Band WIMAX and other
Application
 900 MHz

2.1 GHz