Yong-Woong Jang, Keukdong College; Sang-Woo Lee, Hankook Antenna Co. Ltd.

Wideband Dual-top Loading Monopole Antenna

In this article, a low profile, wideband, dual-loaded monopole antenna with a ring-shaped plate is presented. The ring-shaped plate in the ground plane is used to enhance the impedance matching and to increase the antenna gain, resulting from a low rad...

December 1, 2008

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Monopole antennas are used in mobile communications. A monopole antenna is a very simple and efficient radiating element. 1 It is well known that the smaller the size of the antenna, the lower its efficiency and narrower its bandwidth (a few percent). 2 A 36 percent bandwidth enhancement of...

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