1. Reconfigurable Loop Antenna With Two Parasitic Grounded Strips for WWAN/LTE Unbroken-Metal-Rimmed Smartphones
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Yong-Ling Ban, Yun-Fei Qiang, Zhe-Feng Yu, Hui-Bin Zhang, and Jinhong Guo
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General Computer Science ,Computer science ,WWAN/LTE ,Random wire antenna ,Smart antenna ,Magnetic monopole ,Data_CODINGANDINFORMATIONTHEORY ,02 engineering and technology ,Antenna rotator ,smartphone ,Antenna tuner ,law.invention ,Folded inverted conformal antenna ,Microstrip antenna ,Reconfigurable antenna ,law ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Scattering parameters ,General Materials Science ,Dipole antenna ,Omnidirectional antenna ,Monopole antenna ,Coaxial antenna ,Directional antenna ,Quad antenna ,business.industry ,Loop antenna ,020208 electrical & electronic engineering ,Antenna measurement ,General Engineering ,Electrical engineering ,unbroken metal rim ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,Antenna efficiency ,Embedded system ,lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering ,Antenna (radio) ,business ,lcsh:TK1-9971 - Abstract
A reconfigurable loop antenna with two parasitic grounded strips for modern smartphone devices is presented in this paper. The most essential merit of this proposed reconfigurable antenna is that it can keep the intactness of the outer metal rim. In addition, it can generate multiantenna modes. The outer metal rim generates three loop modes and the inner parasite grounded strips can provide two monopole modes. By merging these two types of antenna modes, it can offer two wide bandwidths to cover GSM850/900, DCS/PCS/UMTS2100, and LTE2300/2500 operations with a compact antenna size of 945 mm2. The detailed operating principles and design considerations of this proposed reconfigurable antenna are described. In order to validate this proposed antenna, it was fabricated and tested. The measured antenna efficiencies and gains are satisfied with the requirements for the modern communication devices.
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- 2017
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