A wideband dual-polarised patch antenna with high isolation and a low cross-polarisation level is presented. Two orthogonal linearly-polarised modes are excited by the electromagnetic-fed structure. One of the two modes is excited by a pair of hook-shaped probes with a 180 o phase difference; while the other is excited by a magnetic-coupled loop, which is comprised of a metal loop and an open-ended transmission line. By introducing two shorting pins, the isolation between two feeding ports can be enhanced to more than 40 dB. Moreover, the radiation patterns in the ± 45°planes have a cross-polarisation level of less than − 30 dB within the 3 dB beam widths. The measured − 10 dB reflection coefficients bandwidth of the two modes are 40.7% (2.45-3.7 GHz) and 38.7% (2.6-3.85 GHz). The gains of the proposed antenna are about 8.7 and 9.1 dBi over the operating band. Thus, this antenna is highly suitable for the base station antenna that is required to cover the operating bandwidth of 3.5 GHz WiMAX systems.

A novel multiband rhombic slot antenna with a truncated corner is proposed for wireless local area network (WLAN) and worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) applications simultaneously. By introducing a pair of straight strips and two etched ∩‐shaped slots, the proposed antenna can operate in multibands. The prototype of the proposed antenna has been successfully constructed and tested. The 10 dB return loss bandwidths of them are 550 MHz (3.15–3.70 GHz) and 920 MHz (5.05–5.97 GHz), respectively, which can cover both the WLAN bands (5.15–5.35 GHz and 5.725–5.825 GHz) and the WiMAX bands (3.4–3.6 GHz and 5.25–5.85 GHz). In addition, good monopole‐like radiation characteristics with sufficient antenna gains are obtained over the operating bands. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 54:1466–1469, 2012; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26837

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A low‐cost microstrip filter antenna with a monopole‐like radiation pattern suitable to be embedded inside a RF front end of wireless communication systems is presented. The filter antenna comprises two square open‐loop resonators, a coupled line, and a microstrip antenna with an impedance transformation line. The microstrip antenna is excited by the coupled line, which is treated as the admittance inverter in filter design. The microstrip antenna performs as not only a radiator but also the last resonator of the bandpass filter. Therefore, the transmission loss between the filter and the antenna is reduced. The patch of the microstrip antenna is stacked above the system circuit board of the RF front end. In this case, the design can fully integrate the circuit board of the RF front end into an internal filter‐antenna solution. The design procedure of the filter antenna follows the circuit approach—synthesis of bandpass filters. The measured results show good agreement with the simulated ones. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 54:1810–1814, 2012; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26932

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A novel type of printed and doubled‐sided dipole antenna with multiband operation for wireless local area networks and worldwide interoperability for microwave access is presented. The antenna is composed of several symmetrical branch strips dipoles which are employed as resonators for multiband operation and a modified rectangular ground plane as a reflector. Prototype of the proposed antenna has been constructed and experimentally studied. The measured results of the tri‐band not only explore wide −10 dB impedance bandwidths of 20, 14, and 15% at the operating bands of 2.5, 3.5, and 5.5 GHz respectively, but also show good agreement with the numerical predictions. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 54:1019–1022, 2012; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26705

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An internal antenna for penta‐band wireless wide area network (WWAN 824–960/1710–2170 MHz) operation in the mobile handset is presented. By integrating two monopole slots with a monopole strip printed on the top portion of the main circuit board, the monopole slots generate their quarter‐wavelength slot modes for the antenna's lower band, whereas the monopole strip can contribute quarter‐wavelength resonant modes for the antenna's upper band. The monopole strip serves as a feed for the monopole slots and also functions as an efficient radiator. In this case, the antenna can provide two wide operating bands (795–1035/1700–2205 MHz) to cover the penta‐band WWAN operation.