The designs of three compact dual-band monopole antennas for wireless-local-area-network (WLAN)applications are presented. In these designs, an L-or U-shaped monopole element with microstrip-fed is used to generate a high-frequency band at around 5.5 GHz to cover the high WLAN bands at 5.2/5.8GHz for the IEEE 802.11a standard. An E-shaped element, loop element or meander-microstrip ground stub element with coupled-fed through the monopole element is used to generate a low-frequency band at around 2.4 GHz to cover the low WLAN band for the IEEE 802.11b/g standards. With such arrangements, the three antenna shave very compact radiators of only 11.3×8 mm2,12.6×9 mm2and11.8×9.4 mm2. To investigate the performances for practical uses, these antennas are also designed on a mobile-phone printed-circuit board and studied using computer simulation and measurement. Dual-band antennas with reconfigurable Dual-band antennas with reconfigurable lower band, higher band and dual-band are designed in this thesis. The dual-band antenna consists of two radiating branches generating the frequency bands at around 2.4 GHz and 3.5 GHz for the WiMAX system. Varactors are placed on the corresponding branches for continuously tuning of the operating bands for different WiMAX standards. For frequency tuning of the lower band or higher band, simple and novel DC biasing circuits without requiring any soldering wire are proposed to bias the varactor on a radiating element. While for simultaneous frequency tuning of the two individual bands, simple and novel DC biasing circuits requiring two soldering wires are proposed to bias the varactors on the radiating elements. Both simulation and measurement results show that the DC biasing circuits designed have very little affects on the antennas performances. The design of a monopole ultra-wide band (UWB)antenna with a reconfigurable notch band is presented. The antenna employs a vertical-ellipse radiator to achieve an UWB. A compact defected-ground structure (DGS)is used to create a notch band for the antenna. To frequency tune the notch band, a varactor is placed on the DGS to control the resonance frequency. The tuning performance, in terms of reflection coefficient, radiation pattern, efficiency and gain, of the antennais studied using simulation and measurement. Results show that the notch band can be tuned continuously from 5.2 to 6.32 GHz for the WLAN bands. In the measurement of a monopole antenna with a small ground plane, the feeding cable used to connect the antenna to the measurement equipment Satimo Starlab system causes discrepancies between the simulated and measured radiation patterns, efficiencies and peak gains at lower frequencies. In the designs of antennas in this thesis, the cable effects are studied by modeling the feeding cable using the EM simulation tool CST. Results show that, by using the cable model, the simulated and measured results agree very well. / published_or_final_version / Electrical and Electronic Engineering / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 10, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.

The studies in this dissertation mainly utilize planar antennas for ultra-wideband antenna designs not only on the investigation of antenna performance but also towards exploiting attractive features of ultra-wideband antennas for practical applications, such as WMAN access-point antennas, omnidirectional WiMAX access-point antennas, band-notched UWB (Ultra-wideband, 3.1 ~ 10.6 GHz) antennas, and so on. To begin with, the effects of the ground-plane size and the asymmetrical ground plane on ultra-wideband antennas are studied in Chapter 2. Following up, from the conclusive results, an antenna for WMAN operation in access-point applications and an omnidirectional monopole for USB wireless network card device are proposed and analyzed. Characteristics of ultra-wideband antenna radiation in relation to the antenna's width for obtaining omnidirectional radiation are addressed. In Chapter 3, several ultra-wideband access-point antennas are presented for achieving good omnidirectional radiation in the azimuthal plane across the bandwidth. Furthermore, in Chapter 4, band-notching techniques are applied to ultra-wideband antennas for avoiding the interference between the UWB and the WLAN systems.

<p>The overall goal of the thesis is to establish detailed comparisons among different well-known models of excitations in their application on Microstrip-like Monopoles. Comparisons are made over the input impedances predicted by these excitations. In this way, the Galerkin’s version of the Method of Moment is applied and rooftops functions are chosen as our basis/weighting functions. Different excitation models have their influence over the excitation vector and a unique MoM matrix is used to give input impedances. We shall elicit the effects of several parameters over relative input self/mutual impedances derived from these excitation models and finally make conclusions about their differences in anticipating the input Resistance, input Reactance and also resonance frequencies.</p>

Studies of the optimum isolation in a multi-mode PDA phone are presented in this thesis. Firstly, we analyze the optimum isolation between the DCS and GPS antennas embedded in a dual-mode PDA phone. Then, we change the antenna types of the DCS system to study again the behavior of the optimum isolation. Secondly, we analyze the optimum isolation between a DCS antenna and a WLAN antenna embedded in a dual-mode PDA phone. Finally, we propose a multi-mode PDA phone for DCS, GPS, and WLAN operations with good isolation among the three internal antennas.

When the conventional mobile communication antennas embedded in the laptop computers, it is difficult to achieve enough bandwidths or a larger antenna size is required for covering the GSM/DCS operation. To overcome this problem, three new mobile communication internal antennas, having multi-band operation capability and suitable to be embedded in the laptop computers are proposed. At first, we introduce a monopole antenna with a shorted parasitic element. This antenna can provide wide bandwidths to cover GSM900, DCS, PCS, and UMTS operations. Then, in order to additionally achieve the GSM850 operation to form the penta-band operation, we present a wideband monopole antenna with a shorted structure. Finally, we propose an open-loop antenna with a shorted parasitic element. The antenna occupies a smaller volume and is capable of providing wide bandwidths to cover GSM850, GSM900, DCS, PCS, and UMTS operations. Detailed antenna designs and experimental results are presented and discussed.

Two novel antenna designs for mobile handsets are proposed in this thesis. With a helix loading, an inverted-L monopole antenna capable of generating two resonances at about 900 and 1850 MHz is first presented. The operating bandwidths obtained cover the required bandwidths of the GSM/DCS/PCS bands. Besides, an internal mobile handset antenna comprising a PIFA and a PILA, which are, respectively, designed for covering the GSM and DCS/PCS bands is also presented. The PIFA and PILA together occupy a compact volume of 7.2 ¡Ñ 20 ¡Ñ 40 mm3, and are suitable to be built-in within the housing of a mobile handset.

Novel compact antenna designs for WiMAX (Worldwide interoperability for microwave access) operation in the mobile phone are presented in this thesis. In the first design, the antenna is integrated at one corner of system circuit board of the mobile phone and consists of two radiating portions; the monopole slot is formed by integrating the two portions. In the second design, two different antenna structures are used to achieve all WiMAX operating bands. Finally, in the third design, the chip antenna comprises a resonant monopole patch, a resonant shorter slot and a matching longer slot. The latter two slots are embedded within the monopole patch to achieve a compact integration. Detailed antenna designs and experimental results are presented and discussed.

In this thesis, three small-size internal multiband antennas for laptop computer application for different wireless communication systems are proposed. In the first design, the coupling feed is incorporated to the planar inverted-F antenna to achieve a dual-resonance excitation in the lower band such that the obtained bandwidths can easily cover GSM850/900/DCS/PCS/UMTS operation. The effect of the user¡¦s hand on the antenna is also studied. In the second design, we introduce the T-shaped coupling feed used in the PIFA for successful excitation of two wide operating bands to cover WLAN operation in the 2.4 GHz band and 5.2/5.8 GHz band, and the size reduction is even larger than 50%. Finally, a multiband monopole antenna with a band-notching slit is proposed. By embedding the slit of length about a quarter-wavelength at about 4 GHz, a band-notching characteristic is obtained, which leads to an additional resonance at about 3.5 GHz. Hence, three wide operating bands for covering all the desired operating bands of WLAN/WiMAX systems are achieved for the proposed antenna.

The overall goal of the thesis is to establish detailed comparisons among different well-known models of excitations in their application on Microstrip-like Monopoles. Comparisons are made over the input impedances predicted by these excitations. In this way, the Galerkin’s version of the Method of Moment is applied and rooftops functions are chosen as our basis/weighting functions. Different excitation models have their influence over the excitation vector and a unique MoM matrix is used to give input impedances. We shall elicit the effects of several parameters over relative input self/mutual impedances derived from these excitation models and finally make conclusions about their differences in anticipating the input Resistance, input Reactance and also resonance frequencies.