A novel dual-band printed G-shaped monopole antenna is proposed. The antenna provides two resonant paths of different lengths (forming into a G-shaped profile) in order to achieve 2.4- and 5.2-GHz dual-band operation for WLAN applications. Reasonably large impedance-matching bandwidth and good radiation patterns have been observed. The measured impedance bandwidth for 10-dB return loss in the 2.4- and 5.2-GHz bands reaches 0.37 GHz. (2.25-2.62 GHz) and 1.06 GHz (4.94-6 GHz), respectively. In addition, the proposed antenna has a small size of 13.6 x 9.3 mm(2). (c) 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.