Novel chip antennas having an attractive EMC¡]Electromagnetic Compatibility¡^property for WLAN¡]Wireless Local Area Network¡^operations are demonstrated in this thesis. With the EMC property, the proposed antennas are suitable to be applied as internal antennas in mobile communication devices, such as the smart phones or PDA¡]Personal Digital Assistant¡^phones. With the antenna ground portion functioning as a new ground structure, the EM fringing fields in the surrounding region of the proposed antennas are greatly reduced to be negligible. When the possible RF shielding metal case or other electronic components are placed close to the proposed antennas, the antenna performances are almost unaffected. In other words, the isolation distance between the antenna and the nearby components will be no long required. This can lead to a compact integration of the proposed antennas with the nearby components in mobile communication devices. Details of the measured and simulated results of the proposed EMC chip antennas are presented and discussed.

Novel antennas attractive to fit in the internal space of a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) for WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) operations are presented in this dissertation. The proposed antennas have in common good impedance bandwidth (defined by 10 dB return loss), covering the dual-band WLAN operation in the 2.4/5.2 GHz bands. Two novel designs of foam-base surface-mount antennas are proposed in Chapters 2 and 3. Surface-mountable antennas, compared with ceramic antennas, are generally low cost in fabrication and rigid in nature. Low-profile and good dual-band operation of the proposed surface-mountable antennas can be observed in Chapters 2 and 3, and in addition, a few present-day WLAN bands at 5 GHz are covered in the operating bandwidths of the proposed foam-base surface-mountable shorted monopole antenna, shown in Chapter 3. Finally, in Chapter 4, a novel planar helical antenna printed on both surfaces of a dielectric substrate is demonstrated. This patent-pending helical antenna is very suitable to print and integrate on a circuit board of a PDA device for 2.4/5.2 GHz WLAN operation.