Designing Embedded Antennas for Bluetooth Protocol

Abstract

In the near future, all kinds of portable devices ranging from laptops, PDAs, to cellular phones will be capable of communicating and inter-operate with each other using a new wireless technology networking protocol known as bluetooth. There are however, several hurdles that must be overcomed. One of these hurdles is to provide a communication link that is mostly interference free. The design of an appropriate antenna is important in providing a good communication between devices. In this paper we present the outline of an embedded antenna using the method of moments. This work is also extended to address generally other design issues in bluetooth technology that can be addressed using computational electromagnetics.