Internal planar WWAN laptop computer antenna using monopole slot elements

Abstract

Abstract A planar WWAN (wireless wide area network) antenna comprising two monopole slots operated at their quarter‐wavelength modes for GSM850/900/1800/1900/UMTS operation in the laptop computer is presented. With the use of monopole slot elements, the antenna can be easily printed on an inexpensive FR4 substrate and show a planar structure for promising applications in the thin‐profile laptop computer. The antenna can provide two wide operating bands at about 900 and 1900 MHz to cover all the five operating bands for WWAN operation and yet occupies a small area of 10 × 75 mm 2 in the narrow spacing between the display and the laptop computer casing. The user's hand effects on the antenna performances when the touch panel or touch screen is used for the laptop computer are also studied. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 1274–1279, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24336