Review of multiband Antenna for Mobile communication

Abstract

Abstract: Due to highly increasing of mobile user, wireless communication become more sophisticated and advanced, each decade at least one generation of mobile or wireless communication system is released with additional features. While each time one generation is released. It has its own working principle with different operating band.  Some of them is GSM (880 to 960 MHZ and 1710.2 to 1879 MHz), UMTS (2110 to 2200 MHz), LTE2300 (2305 to 2400 MHZ), Bluetooth (2.402 -2.480 GHz) or (2.400 and 2.4835 GHz) and WLAN (2400–2484MHz). All additional features need antenna that resonate at specific frequency spectrum range. Which means multiple antenna is needed inside one mobile device to be functional in all generation for all frequency spectrum. To decrease this number of antennas inside one device it is necessary to design new antenna type that operate at different frequency range. Multiband antenna is designed by changing shapes, size, and material property of different antenna types, mostly PIFA, Fractal antenna, and monopole antenna is used for mobile device. Multiband antenna is best solution for mobile device to operate under different wireless communication generation infrastructure.  

Keyword: multiband antenna, spectrum, PIFA, Fractal antenna, monopole antenna