Reconfigurable hendeca-band antenna for wireless communication

Abstract

A reconfigurable hendaca-band monopole antenna designed for operating on GSM (880–960MHz), GPS (1575MHz), DCS/PCS/UMTS (1710–2170MHz), TD-SCDMA/Bluetooth/WiMAX2.6 (2.3GHz–2.7GHz),WiMAX3.5 (3.4–3.6GHz) and WLAN/WiMAX5.8 (4.9–5.9GHz) services is proposed in this paper. The antenna is composed of an elaborate designed multiband monopole antenna and a pin-diode switch. The measurement results of the prototype antenna show that it has sufficient bandwidth to serve aforementioned multiple communication standards.