Compact multiband monopole antenna for WLAN/WiMAX applications

In this article, a compact multiband monopole antenna is proposed to cover the frequency band for wireless local area network and worldwide interoperability for microwave access application. The multiband monopole antenna has the advantage of compact size of 15 x 30 mm2. The proposed antenna is an S-shaped strip connected with a notched rectangle loop radiation patch with a ground plane, and there is a slot in the ground plane. The two lower bands are achieved by the rectangle loop patch and the higher band is achieved by the slot in the ground plane. The impedance bandwidth for 10 dB return loss at 2.46, 3.8, and 5.4 GHz, are from 2.4 to 2.51 GHz, 3.20 to 4.07 GHz, and 5.08 to 5.85 GHz, respectively. Experimental results show that the antenna gives omnidirectional radiation patterns and stable antenna gains in the operating bands with the compact size. (c) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 56:1809-1812, 2014