A Novel Compact Varactor-Tunable PIFA Antenna for ISDB-T Application

Author

Mi, Haipeng ; Feng, Zhenghe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ. Beijing, Beijing

fYear

2007

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a novel design of a compact varactor-tuned PIFA antenna for ISDB-T (terrestrial integrated services digital broadcasting) application. This design is based on capacitor loaded planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) structure, and its resonance frequency can be electrically controlled so that wideband operation is achieved. A tuning circuit which consists of a varactor diode is introduced to adjust the impedances to realize the required resonance frequency. The proposed antenna covers ISDB-T band (470MHz - 770MHz) and satisfied the specified gain requirement. This antenna is occupied in a total volume of 40mmX 24mmX1mm and can be easily placed into a portable device such as a GPS navigation system.

Keywords

digital video broadcasting; planar inverted-F antennas; varactors; GPS navigation system; ISDB-T application; capacitor loaded planar inverted-F antenna; compact varactor-tunable PIFA antenna; frequency 470 MHz to 770 MHz; terrestrial integrated services digital broadcasting; Broadband antennas; Capacitors; Circuit optimization; Communication standards; Data communication; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Loaded antennas; Multiplexing; Resonance; Resonant frequency; ISDB-T; PIFA; tunable antenna; varactor; wideband antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2007. APMC 2007. Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0748-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0749-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2007.4554763

Filename

4554763