A low-profile dual-band folded monopole antenna design for mobile applications

This work proposes a highly compact dual-band antenna design based on meander-line folded monopole for GSM/DCS handset applications. The first experimental prototype is design to cover GSM/DCS bands under the physical size constrain of 33 × 4 × 3 mm
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. Good agreement between the numerical results and measured data is obtained. The acceptable measured gain performance of the first prototype design validates this useful design approach.