Multiband Folded Slot Antenna With Reduced Hand Effect for Handsets

Author

Lee, Sang Heun ; Lim, Yohan ; Yoon, Young Joong ; Hong, Chang-Beom ; Kim, Hyung-Il

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

9

fYear

2010

fDate

7/2/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

674

Lastpage

677

Abstract

In this letter, a multiband handset antenna using folded slots is proposed to support the five wireless communication bands of GSM850 (824-894 MHz), GSM900 (880-960 MHz), DCS1800 (1710-1880 MHz), PCS1900 (1850-1990 MHz), and UMTS (1920-2170 MHz). Since the proposed antenna has balanced resonating characteristics, resonant frequency shifting due to the hand effect is reduced while allowing a small size of 40 × 18 × 7 mm³ (W × L × H). As a result, the improved matching characteristic at the operating frequency band reduces the degeneration of the radiation efficiency due to the hand effect.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; antenna radiation patterns; cellular radio; multifrequency antennas; resonance; slot antennas; DCS1800; GSM850; GSM900; PCS1900; UMTS; balanced resonating characteristics; frequency 1710 MHz to 1880 MHz; frequency 1850 MHz to 1990 MHz; frequency 1920 MHz to 2170 MHz; frequency 824 MHz to 894 MHz; frequency 880 MHz to 960 MHz; hand effect; matching characteristic; multiband folded slot antenna; multiband handset antenna; radiation efficiency; resonant frequency; wireless communication band; Balanced mode; handset antennas; multiband antennas; slot antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2010.2058086

Filename

5510101