Design and Analysis of Optimizing Single-Element Microstrip Patch Antenna for Dual-Band Operations

A novel frequency selectable microstrip patch antennas for dual-band WLAN is presented. The proposed design is based on the shorting pin antennas, which have ten shorting pins at a distance from the radiating edges on patch. The designed antennas can perform in IEEE 802.11.a/b and be adopted for a near region RF wireless network systems. As a result, this paper presents possibility for the design of optimizing to select the required frequency as controlling the number of shorting pins.