Today, more and more mobile services are emerging: GSM 850, GSM 900, PCS 1800, DCS 1900, UMTS, DVB-H, WLAN, etc. The mobile antennas are required to support an increasing number of bands. On the other hand, due to the trend towards miniaturization, the available space inside the mobile phones for the antennas decreases. As the attainable antenna bandwidth is subjected to the physical limit depending on the size of the mobile terminal, it becomes impractical for a mobile antenna to cover all the bands with satisfactory reflection magnitude.
The high-efficiency tunable antenna which covers a large bandwidth with low return loss is a promising solution to this problem. Limitations of the tunable antennas are their loss and non-linearity introduced by the tuning devices.
The physical limit on the attainable bandwidth of the mobile terminal is shown first. This limit is applied to the DVB-H standard, which is a broadband application. The result shows that the non-tunable antenna can not cover the whole DVB-H band with satisfactory reflection magnitude. Solution approaches for the tunable mobile antenna design are proposed in detail, including the designing procedure, device selection, low-loss tuning circuit design and harmonics suppression. New measurement set-ups for tunable antennas are proposed. The demonstrators are shown in the end.
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Today, more and more mobile services are emerging: GSM 850, GSM 900, PCS 1800, DCS 1900, UMTS, DVB-H, WLAN, etc. The mobile antennas are required to support an increasing number of bands. On the other hand, due to the trend towards miniaturization, the available space inside the mobile phones for the antennas decreases. As the attainable antenna bandwidth is subjected to the physical limit depending on the size of the mobile terminal, it becomes impractical for a mobile antenna to cover all the...
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