Bent planar monopole operating at GSM/DCS/PCS/IMT2000 quad-bands

In this paper, a compact antenna operating in the GSM/DCS/PCS/IMT2000 quad-bands is presented. By bending the meandered monopole into three equal and perpendicular sections, then coupling the bent monopole with another strip monopole antenna, the designed novel antenna covers the required bandwidths of GSM (890–960 MHz), DCS (1710–1880 MHz), PCS (1850–1990 MHz) and IMT2000 (1900–2025 MHz). © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 40: 170–172, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.11319