Miniaturized Dual-Band Balanced Antenna for LTE using Meander Lines

a new compact dual-band balanced antenna is proposed with meandered lines operating in the LTE hands of 700/2600MHz. It has a compact size with the overall dimensioning of 54x18x 8 mm(3), in which can he simply concealed within mobile handsets. Techniques such as meandered lines are used in order to accomplish a well-matching and size reduction of antenna. The meander lines were printed on FR4 substrate with relative permittivity of 4.4 and dielectric loss tangent of 0.0017 with a thickness of 1.6 mm. The results of the present design structure were checked in terms of reflection coefficient, operational bandwidth, current surface, and radiation pattern characteristics. The results have shown that the proposed design can be an attractive candidate for use in mobile handset.