Title :
Compact active antenna for mobile devices supporting 4G LTE
Author :
Singh, Ashutosh ; Shamblin, Jeff ; Jones, Roy ; Rowson, Sebastian ; Pajona, Olivier ; Sron, Seng Thail ; Floc´h, J.M. ; Drissi, M´hamed
Author_Institution :
Ethertronics, San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract :
The advent of 4G LTE has ushered in a growing demand for embedded antennas that can cover a wide range of frequency bands from 698 MHz to 2.69 GHz. A novel active antenna design is presented in this paper that is capable of covering a wide range of LTE bands while being constrained to a 1.8 cm3 volume. The antenna structure utilizes Ethertronics EtherChip 2.0 to add tunability to the antenna structure. The paper details the motivation behind developing the antenna and further discusses the fabrication of the active antenna architecture on an evaluation board and presents the measured results.
Keywords :
4G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; UHF antennas; active antennas; 4G LTE; Ethertronics EtherChip 2.0; antenna structure; compact active antenna; embedded antennas; frequency 689 MHz to 2.69 GHz; mobile devices; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Capacitors; Dipole antennas; Mobile antennas; Tuning; Active antenna; Band Switching; LTE;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2014 Loughborough
Conference_Location :
Loughborough
DOI :
10.1109/LAPC.2014.6996441
