Title :
Compensation of finger effect on a mobile terminal antenna by antenna selection
Author :
Valkonen, Risto ; Myllymäki, Sami ; Huttunen, Arttu ; Holopainen, Jari ; Ilvonen, Janne ; Vainikainen, Pertti ; Jantunen, Heli
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Dept. of Radio Sci. & Eng., Aalto Univ., Aalto, Finland
Abstract :
In this paper, compensation of the effect of the user´s finger on the operation of a mobile terminal antenna is studied, using antenna selection as the compensation method. A dual-element antenna is compared with a single-element antenna occupying the same total antenna volume. The results show that antenna selection can provide an improvement of at least 2 dB in total efficiency at GSM1800 frequency band when the antenna is under influence of the index finger of the user.
Keywords :
mobile antennas; GSM1800 frequency band; antenna selection; dual-element antenna; finger effect compensation; index finger; mobile terminal antenna; Antenna measurements; Couplings; Fingers; Impedance; Indexes; Mobile antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7366-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICEAA.2010.5648879
