Miniature Internal Penta-Band Monopole Antenna for Mobile Phones

Abstract

A compact T-slit monopole antenna with slotted ground plane in the mobile phone for penta-band operation is proposed. In this configuration, the antenna comprises a T-slit monopole printed on the top ungrounded portion of an FR4 substrate of small size of 47 × 5.4 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> and a slotted ground plane etched on the back side of the substrate of size of 47 × 10 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> . In addition, an inverted-L copper strip is soldered to the end edge of the monopole for extending the electrical length of the antenna for GSM band; that is, the proposed antenna occupies a small volume of 47 × 10 × 5 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sup> inside the mobile phone and is suitable to operate as an internal antenna. By controlling the related parameters, the proposed antenna can resonates at different operating bands to cover GSM850/900 and DCS/PCS/UMTS operations independently.