A small planar inverted-F antenna for wearable applications

Author

Salonen, P. ; Sydanheimo, L. ; Keskilammi, M. ; Kivikoski, M.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland

fYear

1999

fDate

18-19 Oct. 1999

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

100

Abstract

Small printed antennas will replace the commonly used normal-mode helical antennas of mobile handsets and systems in the future. This paper presents a novel small planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) which is a common PIFA in which a U-shaped slot is etched to form a dual band operation for wearable and ubiquitous computing equipment. Health issues are considered in selecting suitable antenna topology and the placement of the antenna. Various applications are presented while the paper mainly discusses about the GSM applications.

Keywords

UHF antennas; health hazards; microstrip antennas; mobile antennas; mobile computing; multifrequency antennas; portable computers; GSM applications; PIFA; antenna placement; antenna topology; dual band operation; etched U-shaped slot; health issues; mobile handsets; small planar inverted-F antenna; small printed antennas; ubiquitous computing equipment; wearable applications; wearable computing equipment; Arm; Bluetooth; Cables; Dipole antennas; Frequency; Impedance; Mobile antennas; Mobile handsets; Radio link; Resonance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wearable Computers, 1999. Digest of Papers. The Third International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0428-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWC.1999.806679

Filename

806679