Broadband multilayer ceramic chip antenna for handsets

A novel broadband and small multilayer ceramic chip antenna has been designed and investigated. The proposed antenna has a small size of 14/spl times/2.4/spl times/1 mm/sup 3/. A wide bandwidth of 33% (VSWR<2.0) has been obtained, and the measured antenna gain has an average value of /spl sim/1.2 dBi. These characteristics make the proposed antenna applicable to future mobile handsets.