A rectangular slot antenna fed by a coplanar waveguide is proposed for dual‐band operations.The measured −10 dB bandwidth for return loss is from 2.05 to 2.65 GHz and 5.1 to 5.4 GHz, covering all the 2.4/5.2 GHz WLAN bands. A multi‐feed 12‐element planar array was designed and simulated. It shows that the features of small size, uniplanar structure, good radiation characteristics, and small mutual coupling are promising for multi‐input multi‐output applications in laptops. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 52: 1280–1282, 2010; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.25198