Miniaturized dual‐band slot antenna design for GPS, amateur radio and WLAN applications

Abstract

In this article, miniaturization of dual-band slot antenna design for GPS, WLAN and amateur radio applications is presented. The proposed dual-band miniaturized antenna is achieved using slits, rectangular split ring and metallic strips fed by 50 Ω microstrip feed. The first resonant frequency is achieved by loading reference antenna with eight slits that is antenna 1 and the second resonant frequency is achieved by loading with one center slits and rectangular split ring that is antenna 2. Dual-band antenna is achieved by loading reference slot antenna with nine slits and rectangular split ring which resonates at frequency of 1.52 and 3.03 GHz respectively. As a result, it is achieved 53.79% reduction in first band resonant frequency with 76.07% improvement in −10 dB bandwidth and 7.90% reduction in second band resonant frequency compared to reference slot antenna. Further, this dual-band antenna is miniaturized by metallic strips which are placed on the bottom of the substrate. This results in 61.39% reduction in first band resonant frequency with 32.07% improvement in −10 dB bandwidth and 26.13% reduction in second band resonant frequency in comparison with reference slot antenna topology.