transceiver; as a rcsult, the caviiy-down package can simplify the design and fabrication of the antenna.

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Printed dual-band dipole antenna with U-slotted arms for 2.4/5.2 GHz WLAN operation
Chih-Ming Su, Hong-Twu Chen and Kin-Lu Wong
Dual-band operation of a printed dipolc iintcniiii with U-slotted arms is prcscntcd. Duc to thc cmbcddcd U-shapcd slots, two additional dipole arnis arc obtained ia thc proposed design, which form a second dipolc antenna with a smaller length and which can generate a higher rcsoiiant mock for thc 5.2 GHz band operation. By incorporating the original dipole arms designed for thc 2.4 GHz band operation, the proposcd antenna can perform WLAN operations in the 2.4 and 5.2 GHz bands. Introduction: Printed dipole antennas have been applicd in communication devices such as a notebook compntcr for wireless local area network (WLAN) opcratioiis [ l , 21. This type of printed dipole antcnna usually has a narrow width and is very suitable for installation along the perimeter or at the corners of the display panel of the notebook computer [ 2 ] .In this case, the printed dipole antenna can be integrated within thc housing of thc notcbook computer, leading to a concealed antenna with no protruding portions in appearance. Owing to the rapid progress in WLAN communications, dualband operations in the 2.4 GHz (2.4-2.484 GHz) and 5.2 GHz (5.155.35 CHz) bands arc now demanded for the antenna employed in communication devices. For this purpose, a dual-band printed dipole antcnna has becn reported [I], in which two separate dipolcs of different arm lengths are printed on two sides of a dielectric substrate and fed by a microstrip line. The longcr and shorter dipoles, respectively, arc designed to gcncratc a resonant mode for operating in thc 2.4 and 5.2 GHz bands. In this Letter, we demonstrate a novel and simple dual-frequency design of ihe printed dipole antenna with U-slotted arms. The proposcd design does not require separate dipole arms to achieve two separate operating bands, and is printed on one side of the substrate only, which makes it easier to construct. and it has a narrower width than the design in [l]. Furthermore, the narrower width makes the proposed antenna easier to instal along the perimeter of the display panel of the notebook cornpuler and thus tnorc suiiable for integration within the housing of the notebook computer.
.4ntenna design: Fig. 1 shows thc proposed dual-band dipolc antcnna

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power 5-GHz RF front end, Proc. IEEE, 2000, 88, (IO), pp. 1583-1597 ZHANG, Y.P.: Integration of microstrip antenna on ccrainic ball grid array package, Electron. Lett., 2002, 38, (5), pp. 207-208

In the proposed design, in each o f t h e two narrow rectangular dipole arms of length 23 mm and width 4 mm, a U-shaped slot is cmbcddcd (detailed dimensions arc given in Fig. I). When there are no U-shaped slots, the two narrow rcctangular dipolc arms form a simple dipole antenna (the larger dipole antenna in this design) for operating in the 2.4 GHz band. With the presence of the embedded U-shaped slots, two additional dipolc arms (the regions within the slots) are obtained, which form a second dipole antenna (the smaller dipolc antenna in this design) with a smaller length and which are used to generate a ncw (higher) resonant mode for the 5.2 GHz band operation. By incorporating this

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new (higher) resonant mode, generated by the smaller dipole antenna, with the original (lower) resonant mode, generated by the larger dipole antenna, the proposed antenna can perform WLAN operations in the 2.4 and 5.2 GHz bands.

impedance bandwidth of 370 MHz (5 140-55 10 MHz), which satisfies the bandwidth requircmcnt of the 5.2 GHz WLAN band.

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Conclusions: A novel printed dual-band dipole antenna for WLAN opcrations in the 2.4 and 5 . 2 G H z bands has bccn proposed. The narrow width, and is easy to implement. The desired lower and higher operating modes can also be easily controlled by the larger and smaller dipole arms separated by the embedded U-shaped slots in the proposed design. Good radiation characteristics of the proposed antenna have also been observed.

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Results: Fig. 2 shows the measured return loss of the constructed prototype. Two separate resonant modes with good iinpcdancc matching can be seen. The lower resonant mode shows a widc 10 dB return loss bandwidth of 500 MHz (2290-2790 MHz), which covers the 2.4 GHz band for WLAN operation. The higher resonanl mode also has a wide
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