A 2.4-GHz printed meander-line antenna for WLAN applications

Abstract
In WLAN card design, the typical type is the PCMCIA card and many printed antennas have been reported for PCMCIA card applications. Currently, there is a miniaturized WLAN card (about the size of a small portable RAM disk) which uses a USB connection to be plugged into a notebook PC. The USB connecting cable can be bent, and hence the antenna on the WLAN card can have different positions and orientations. The paper presents a 2.4 GHz meander-line printed antenna for WLAN applications. The HFSS 3D EM simulator was used for design simulation. The antenna was fabricated on a double-sided FR-4 printed circuit board for experimental measurements.