%0 Journal Article %T Planar Monopole Antenna with Two Coupled Strips for Internal Eight-Band Lte/Wwan Laptop Computer Application %A Hsien-Wen Liu %A Chi-Ming Chiang %A Chang-Fa Yang %J PIER C %D 2012 %I EMW Publishing %R 10.2528/PIERC12041103 %X In this paper, a compact planar monopole antenna with eight-band LTE/WWAN (LTE700/2300/2500/GSM850/900/1800/1900/UMTS) operation for laptop computer application is presented. This design structure comprises a bent driven strip and two coupled strips, which can contribute multiple resonance modes to combine two wide operating frequency bands covering 665-1023 MHz and 1612-2924 MHz. The proposed antenna fed by a 50-¦¸ coaxial cable occupies a small size of only 65()x11()x0.4() mm, so it can be flexibly embedded inside the casing of the laptop computer as an internal antenna. A fabricated prototype of the antenna is tested and analyzed. Experimental results exhibit that nearly omnidirectional coverage and stable gain variation across the desirable LTE/WWAN bands can be obtained with the antenna. %U http://www.jpier.org/pierc/pier.php?paper=12041103