A Miniaturized Triple Band Monopole Antenna for WLAN and WiMAX Applications

Table 1

Comparisons of several existing multiband antennas.

References	Dimensions	Operating bands
[1]	17 × 12	2.4/5.8 GHz
[3]	22 × 29	2.4/3.5/5.2/5.8 GHz
[6]	11 × 6.7	5.8 GHz
[9]	38 × 25	2.4/3.5/5.2/5.5/5.8 GHz
[11]	17 × 12	3.5/5.8 GHz
Proposed antenna	30 × 20	2.4/3.5/5.2/5.5/5.8 GHz
[2]	40 × 20	2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz
[4]	37 × 18	2.4/3.5/5.2/5.5/5.8 GHz
[7]	30 × 50	2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz
[8]	38 × 30	2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz
[10]	40 × 20	2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz
[12]	20 × 35	2.4/5.5/5.8 GHz