Wideband planar inverted-F antenna with meandering shorting strip

A new wideband planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) is introduced. The proposed antenna is based on a simple PIFA, where the shorting strip is modified into a meandering shape such that the antenna can have wideband characteristics. The antenna finds an impedance bandwidth of 45.2% for S11 < -10 dB from 1.565 to 2.48 GHz which can cover the GPS, DCS, IMT-2000, 2.4 GHz WLAN applications. The maximum antenna gains are 1.68, 1.83, 1.90 and 1.78 dBi correspondingly.