Multi-band internal antenna for mobile handsets is designed and fabricated in this thesis. As a mobile handset becomes miniature and its designs become more fashionable, demand for internal antennas is rapidly growing. Various type of mobile handsets ...
Multi-band internal antenna for mobile handsets is designed and fabricated in this thesis. As a mobile handset becomes miniature and its designs become more fashionable, demand for internal antennas is rapidly growing. Various type of mobile handsets with internal antennas are released by many foreign vendors. Recently, multi-band antenna is required for the global roaming service. Therefore, the internal antenna needs to be miniaturized and operate in multi-band. When the antenna is miniaturized, the impedance matching, bandwidth, and radiation pattern of the antenna have to be carefully considered. For multi-band operation, radiator of the antenna requires some slots, parasitic elements, or additional radiating elements. In this thesis, multi-band operation is realized by enhancement of bandwidth, which uses a matching circuit and quality factor of the antenna. Also, the radiator is formed in a multi-layer in order to minimize its size. The proposed antenna is designed to keep current distributions symmetric on its radiator and ground plane. Thus, an omni-directional radiation pattern can be achieved in high frequency band. The proposed antenna consists of a feed, a λ/4 short circuit, the stacked radiating patch and the connecting plate. The measured bandwidths (VSWR 3:1) are satisfied for GSM(880~960 MHz)/GPS(1565~1585 MHz)/DCS(1710~1880 MHz)
/USPCS(1850~1990 MHz)/UMTS(1885~2200 MHz) bands. The radiation patterns in all the band are omni-directional. The maximum and average gains in H-plane are obtained -1.07 dBi/-1.92 dBi in GSM band and 1.92 dBi/-0.58 dBi in the other bands, respectively.