Compact meander monopole antenna for tri‐band WLAN application

Abstract

Abstract A novel printed meander monopole antenna for tri‐band wireless local area network (WLAN) applications is presented. The antenna is composed of a meander strip and a straight strip with a gap between the ends of them, both printed on an inexpensive FR4 substrate, and is fed by a 50 Ω microstrip feeder with the notched ground plane. The operation bandwidth of the proposed antenna covers 2.4, 5.2, and 5.8 GHz WLAN bands with light weight and compact radiator size of only 12 × 7 mm 2 . © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 986–988, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22314