Printed Notched Antenna with Long Meandered Line for Eight-Band LTE/GSM/UMTS Wireless USB Dongle Operation

Abstract

AbstractThis paper presents a planar notched antenna with a long meandered line for wireless USB dongle applications. The printed notched structure is used as additional resonators to generate multiple bands operation for covering GSM1800/1900/UMTS2100/LTE2300/2500 bands. In addition, with the help of the long meandered line via hole to ground, a lower resonant mode is sufficiently generated at around 770 MHz and forms a wider lower operating bandwidth (LTE700/GSM850/900). Briefly printed on a 0.8 mm thick FR4 dielectric substrate of size 20×70 mm² and electrically connected (via hole) to the ground plane of the USB dongle, the proposed antenna can provide a wide operating bandwidth (3:1 VSWR) of larger than 120 % centered at 2,000 MHz, allowing it to cover 698–960 and 1,710–2,690 MHz bands. The proposed antenna also can be attached to laptop computer by the USB interface. Detailed design considerations of the proposed antenna are described, and obtained experimental and simulation results are also presented and discussed in this paper.