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In this article, wideband circularly polarized monopole antennas with multiresonating frequencies are presented for Bluetooth, WLAN, WiMAX, and X‐band applications. The designed antennas have dimensions of 50 × 35 × 1.6 mm3. Two different substrates (FR4‐epoxy and PTFE) are used for fabricating the antennas. The antennas consist of corner truncated I‐shaped and C‐shaped strips excited by a 50 Ω microstrip feed line. The parametric analyses are performed with the help of Ansoft HFSS V.11 EM simulator. Both antennas have been fabricated and measured. The measured percentage bandwidth of the antenna made by FR4 substrate is 31.32% (centered at 1.66 GHz), and 64.85% (centered at 5.69 GHz). The percentage bandwidth of antenna made by PTFE substrate is 20.57% (centered 2.43 GHz) and 68.74% (centered at 7.39 GHz). In addition to that, there exists 3 dB AR bandwidth for LHCP of about 1050 MHz for 5.2 GHz WLAN‐band. The reflection coefficient, radiation patterns, and the gains of both the antennas are studied in detail. It is found that the measured and simulated results are in good agreement.

In this article, multiband monopole antenna has been designed for the applications of wireless communication systems. The antenna is composed of I‐shaped strips which are placed in such a way that the each of the resonating strips produced distinct frequency bands. The optimum dimension of the proposed antenna is printed on dielectric substrates of FR4 epoxy having dimensions of 0.3λ0 × 0.21λ0 × 0.009λ0. The antenna has been fabricated and measured for evidence. The measured results are verified with simulated results. The comparison of simulated and measured S11 parameter, radiation pattern, peak gains, and circular polarization are described in the section of experimental results. The measured result shows that the antenna may cover the frequency band of Digital Cellular System, Personal Communications Service, Long Term Evolution‐4G, Bluetooth, Worldwide Interoperability Microwave Access, Wireless Local Area Network, 802.11j (WLAN‐Public Safety), and X‐band (Satellite Communication‐downlink).

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Designing a high gain planar antenna on the low‐cost FR4 substrate is one of the major challenging tasks for the researchers. The omnidirectional radiation pattern is desired for 360° coverage. Both of these requirements have been addressed in this article. This article presents a dual band printed antenna designed on an FR4 substrate of 1.6 mm thickness. The proposed antenna operates in the ISM band of 2.4 and 5.8 GHz for the application of dual‐band WLAN/WIFI. The proposed antenna consists of a circular patch and ring‐shaped ground plane. The overall dimension of the antenna is 66 × 66 × 1.6 mm3. Excellent impedance matching and radiation efficiency for both the bands have been achieved. The proposed antenna shows omnidirectional radiation pattern at 2.4 GHz ISM band and nearly omnidirectional pattern along with high gain of 4.7 dBi at 5.8 GHz ISM band.