Quad-Band Planar Inverted-F Antenna (PIFA) for Wireless Communication Systems

In this paper, a compact quad-band planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) for wireless communication systems is presented. The proposed PIFA consists of a radiating patch with a hook shaped slot and a modified ground plane with pair of square-ring and rotated I-shaped slots. The antenna is fabricated on an FR4 substrate with dielectric constant of 4.4. By cutting a hook-shaped slit at radiating patch, good dual-band property can be achieved which covers 3.5 GHz worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) and 5.2 GHz wireless local area network (WLAN) frequencies. In addition, by using a modified ground plane with a rotated I-shaped an the pair of square-ring slot, additional resonances at the higher frequencies are generated which suitable for 7.25-7.75 GHz downlink of X-band satellite communication systems and 8.02-8.4 GHz international telecommunication union (ITU) applications. Good return loss, antenna gain and radiation pattern characteristics are obtained in the frequency band of interest. The proposed antenna has a small dimension of 24 x 3 x 1.6 mm(3).