SMALL FOOTPRINT DUAL BAND DIPOLE ANTENNAS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKING

摘要

A small footprint dipole antenna (12,14) of the invention for WLAN applications is designed for full natural resonance in a single band, e.g., the 2.4GHz band, and uses a matching network to for artificial resonance at a second band, e.g., the 5GHz band. The natural impedance of the dipole in second band is set in a range that produces an efficient antenna with substantial range in both of the first and second bands.