Planar inverted-F antenna with a bent meandered radiating arm for GSM/DCS operation

✍ Scribed by Pey-Ling Teng; Tzung-Wern Chiou; Kin-Lu Wong

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 287 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-2477
• DOI: 10.1002/mop.10974

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

An innovative dual‐frequency planar inverted‐F antenna (PIFA) mounted at the bottom end of the ground plane of a folder‐type mobile handset is presented. The proposed PIFA has a bent meandered radiating arm and is first printed on a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB), which is then bent by 90° and attached to and supported by a foam base of size 40 × 8 × 7 mm^3^. The proposed PIFA is capable of GSM/DCS operation, and the experimental results of a constructed prototype are presented and discussed. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 38: 73–75, 2003