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A Miniaturized Dual-Band Antenna with Toothbrush-Shaped Patch and Meander Line for WLAN Applications

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A compact dual-band antenna with toothbrush-shaped patch and meander line is proposed and its performance is investigated both numerically and experimentally for wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. The proposed antenna consists of a toothbrush-shaped patch, a meander line connected with a partial ground plane and a 50-Ω microstrip-fed structure together with the partial ground plane. The dual-band characteristic is realized by using the toothbrush-shaped patch and the meander line connected to the partial ground plane. The center frequencies and the bandwidth of the dual-band antenna can be controlled by adjusting the dimensions of the toothbrush-shaped patch and the meander line. Simulation and experiment results are included to show that the proposed dual-band antenna with wide bandwidth and good omnidirectional radiation patterns is well suited for WLAN applications.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by a Grant from Pre-Research Fund of the 12th Five-Year Plan (No. 4010403020102), International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of China (2014DFR10240), Projects for the Selected Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars of Heilongjiang Province of China and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. HEUCFD1433, HEUCF160815).

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  1. College of Information and Communications Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, Heilongjiang, China

    Yingsong Li & Tao Jiang

  2. Electromagnetic Communication Lab, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Raj Mittra

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Li, Y., Jiang, T. & Mittra, R. A Miniaturized Dual-Band Antenna with Toothbrush-Shaped Patch and Meander Line for WLAN Applications. Wireless Pers Commun 91, 595–602 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3479-2

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