A Novel CPW-FED Monopole Antenna for Multiband Operation

In this paper, a novel CPW-fed dual folded-strip monopole antenna with a pair of inverted L-shaped stubs is proposed for multiband applications. Reasonably large impedance matching bandwidth and good omni-directional radiation patterns have been observed. The measured impedance bandwidths reach about 27% for the lower band and 32% for the higher band, which meets the required bandwidth specifications of 2.4 GHz WLAN, 2.5 GHz WiMAX, DMB and 5.2/5.8 GHz WLAN standards. The proposed antenna with relatively low profile is suitable for multiband wireless communication systems.