• DocumentCode
    1182273
  • Title

    Prediction of head proximity effect on antenna impedance using spherical wave expansions

  • Author

    Sadeghzadeh, Ramazan Ali ; McEwan, Neil J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bradford Univ.
  • Volume
    30
  • Issue
    17
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    8/18/1994 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1365
  • Lastpage
    1366
  • Abstract
    It is shown that, by approximating a human head as a dielectric sphere, the method of spherical wave expansions can be used to obtain useful predictions of the effect of the head on the impedance of an adjacent handset antenna working at ~2 GHz
  • Keywords
    antenna theory; dipole antennas; electric impedance; microwave antennas; 2 GHz; UHF; adjacent handset antenna; antenna impedance; dielectric sphere; half wave dipole; head proximity effect prediction; spherical wave expansions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19940943
  • Filename
    326300