A Dual Band Printed F-Antenna using a Trap with Small Band Separation

Trap antenna is well known and has many applications. With this method, trap(s) are used on antenna to block currents of some frequencies and so electrically divide the antenna into multiple segments and thus one antenna can work on multiple frequencies. In this paper, trap antenna method is used to design a dual band Sub GHz printed F-antenna. The antenna is printed on FR4 board for low cost. The two bands are 865–870 MHz and 902–928 MHz. The challenge of this design is that the separation of the two bands is small. In this case, the extra section for low band is small. Then, the influence of trap LC component variation due to tolerance to the two resonant frequencies is big, and so it is difficult to achieve good in band return loss within the LC tolerance. This is the main difficulty of this design. The problem is solved by placing the low band section away from the end of the antenna.