Wideband printed monopole antenna for application in wireless communication systems

Empirical results of an electrically small printed monopole antenna are described with a fractional bandwidth of 185% (115MHz to 2.90GHz) for return-loss better than 10dB, peak gain and radiation efficiency at 1.45GHz of 2.35dBi and 78.8%, respectively. The antenna geometry can be approximated to a back-to-back triangular shaped patch structure that is excited through a common feed-line with a meander-line T-shape divider. The truncated ground-plane includes a central stub located underneath the feed-line. The impedance bandwidth of the antenna is enhanced with the inclusion of meander-line slots in the patch and four double split-ring resonators on the underside of the radiating patches. The antenna radiates approximately omni-directionally to provide coverage over a large part of very high frequency, the whole of ultrahigh frequency, the whole of L-band and some parts of S-band. The antenna has dimensions of 48.32x43.72x0.8mm(3), which is corresponding to the electrical size of 0.235(0)x0.211(0)x0.003(0), where (0) is the free-space wavelength at 1.45GHz. The proposed low-profile low-cost antenna is suitable for application in wideband wireless communications systems.