New Balanced Mobile Antenna with Wide Bandwidth Performance
Conference: EuCAP 2009 - 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
03/23/2009 - 03/27/2009 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: EuCAP 2009
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Zhou, D.; Abd-Alhameed, R. A.; See, C. H.; Alhaddad, A. G. (Mobile and Satellite Communications Research Centre, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK)
Excell, P. S. (Glyndwr University, Wrexham, LL11 2AW, Wales, UK)
Abstract:
In this paper, a balanced antenna for mobile handset applications with broad bandwidth performance, covering frequencies from 2.6 GHz to 5.8 GHz, is investigated and discussed. The antenna is a variant of folded dipole antenna and a dual-arm on each monopole. The performance of the proposed antenna was analysed and optimised under certain size constrain. For validation, the antenna prototype was fabricated and tested. The performance of this balanced antenna was characterised in terms of the antenna return loss, radiation pattern and power gain. The calculated and measured results in terms of return loss show good agreement and the results also show good wideband characteristics.