Dual-Band Compact Planar Antenna for a Low-Cost WLAN USB Dongle
Among the present technologies for WLAN devices, USB dongles still play a noticeable role. One major design challenge regards the antenna, which unavoidably has to comply with a very small volume available and sometimes should also allow multiband operation. In this scope, the present work discusses...
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| author | Maurício Henrique Costa Dias Bruno Roberto Franciscatto Hans Adel Tan-Phu Vuong |
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| description | Among the present technologies for WLAN devices, USB dongles still play a noticeable role. One major design challenge regards the antenna, which unavoidably has to comply with a very small volume available and sometimes should also allow multiband operation. In this scope, the present work discusses a dual-band WiFi compact planar IFA-based antenna design for a low-cost USB dongle application. Like most of the related published solutions, the methodology for deriving the present proposition was assisted by the use of an antenna analysis software. A prototype was assembled and tested in order to qualify the radiator design. Practical operation conditions were considered in the tests, such as the influence of the dongle case and the effect of the notebook itself. The results complied with the design constraints, presenting an impedance match quite stable regardless of the stick position alongside a laptop base. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0bc9951dd527445dbea5511f871632c52025-08-20T03:54:19ZengWileyInternational Journal of Antennas and Propagation1687-58691687-58772014-01-01201410.1155/2014/793191793191Dual-Band Compact Planar Antenna for a Low-Cost WLAN USB DongleMaurício Henrique Costa Dias0Bruno Roberto Franciscatto1Hans Adel2Tan-Phu Vuong3Military Institute of Engineering, 22290-270 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BrazilGrenoble Institute of Technology, 38000 Grenoble, FranceFraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, 90411 Nuremberg, GermanyGrenoble Institute of Technology, 38000 Grenoble, FranceAmong the present technologies for WLAN devices, USB dongles still play a noticeable role. One major design challenge regards the antenna, which unavoidably has to comply with a very small volume available and sometimes should also allow multiband operation. In this scope, the present work discusses a dual-band WiFi compact planar IFA-based antenna design for a low-cost USB dongle application. Like most of the related published solutions, the methodology for deriving the present proposition was assisted by the use of an antenna analysis software. A prototype was assembled and tested in order to qualify the radiator design. Practical operation conditions were considered in the tests, such as the influence of the dongle case and the effect of the notebook itself. The results complied with the design constraints, presenting an impedance match quite stable regardless of the stick position alongside a laptop base.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/793191 |
| spellingShingle | Maurício Henrique Costa Dias Bruno Roberto Franciscatto Hans Adel Tan-Phu Vuong Dual-Band Compact Planar Antenna for a Low-Cost WLAN USB Dongle International Journal of Antennas and Propagation |
| title | Dual-Band Compact Planar Antenna for a Low-Cost WLAN USB Dongle |
| title_full | Dual-Band Compact Planar Antenna for a Low-Cost WLAN USB Dongle |
| title_fullStr | Dual-Band Compact Planar Antenna for a Low-Cost WLAN USB Dongle |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dual-Band Compact Planar Antenna for a Low-Cost WLAN USB Dongle |
| title_short | Dual-Band Compact Planar Antenna for a Low-Cost WLAN USB Dongle |
| title_sort | dual band compact planar antenna for a low cost wlan usb dongle |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/793191 |
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