Single-Feed Planar Antenna for Electric and Magnetic Fields Reception for Mobile Communications

The fading phenomenon is enumerated in a factor of quality degradation in mobile communication technologies. In this paper, a single-feed planar antenna is proposed for electric and magnetic fields reception in order to improve the degradation of the received signal level due to a fading phenomenon. The proposed antenna has a line element and a conducting ground plane with a slot which are printed on the dielectric substrate. The antenna was analyzed by FDTD method. The characteristics of the single-feed planar antenna for electric and magnetic fields reception and its components (planar monopole antenna and planar slot antenna) are described.