Feasibility Study of 4G Cellular Antennas for Eyewear Communicating Devices

Author

Cihangir, Aykut ; Whittow, William G. ; Panagamuwa, C.J. ; Ferrero, Fabien ; Jacquemod, Gilles ; Gianesello, Frederic ; Luxey, Cyril

Author_Institution

LEAT, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France

Volume

12

fYear

2013

fDate

2013

Firstpage

1704

Lastpage

1707

Abstract

A feasibility study of 4G cellular antennas operating in the LTE, GSM, DCS, PCS, and WLAN2400 standards for wirelessly connected eyewear is presented. The target bands are 700-960 MHz and 1.7-2.7 GHz. The antenna designs are capacitive coupling element types, with simple layout printed on one side of the printed circuit board (PCB) substrate. Three different antennas are examined in terms of obtainable bandwidth potential, reflection coefficient, and specific absorption rate (SAR) values considering two human-head models (SAM and Visible Human). The best antenna is -6 dB matched and has radiation efficiencies around 14% and 36% in respectively low and high frequency bands. Based on simulation data, SAR values could be above the 1-g standards.

Keywords

4G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; UHF antennas; cellular radio; electromagnetic wave reflection; printed circuits; wireless LAN; 1-g standard; 4G cellular antenna; DCS; GSM; LTE; PCB substrate; PCS; SAR value; WLAN2400 standard; capacitive coupling element; eyewear communicating device; frequency 1.7 GHz to 2.7 GHz; frequency 700 MHz to 960 MHz; human-head model; printed circuit board; reflection coefficient; specific absorption rate; wirelessly connected eyewear; Mobile antennas; Mobile handsets; Phantoms; Prototypes; Specific absorption rate; Standards; Coupling element; GSM; LTE; SAR; eyewear;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2013.2287204

Filename

6646202