Near-Metal-Insensitive antenna for closed space wireless communications

Abstract

In order to obtain near-metal-insensitive antenna for closed-space wireless communications, the impedance characteristics of U-shaped folded monopole antenna is investigated in detail. In this Letter, the near-metal-insensitive means antenna VSWRs are hardly influenced by the near object, especially metal. The simulated and measured results show that the proposed higher impedance model has stronger near-metal-insensitiveness than the conventional middle impedance model. The simulated and measured results show that the antenna gains of higher impedance models are 3dB greater at maximum than those of middle impedance models, when metal plane approaches.