Effect of ground plane size on the free-space performance of a mobile handset PIFA antenna

Author

Arkko, AT

Author_Institution

Nokia Corp., Finland

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

31 March-3 April 2003

Firstpage

316

Abstract

In this paper the free-space performance of a commonly used planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) on top of various rectangular ground planes is studied by simulations. Special attention is given to impedance bandwidth and antenna efficiency. The study is carried out for five frequency bands; CDMA800, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900 and UMTS. Optimal ground plane dimensions for each frequency band are given and performance results for selected bands are shown as a function of the ground plane dimensions. Finally effect of the ground plane size on the performances of multiband antennas comprised of different combinations of selected frequency bands are discussed.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; antenna earths; cellular radio; code division multiple access; electric impedance; mobile antennas; mobile handsets; multifrequency antennas; multiuser channels; planar antenna arrays; CDMA800; GSM1800; GSM1900; GSM900; UMTS; antenna efficiency; free-space performance; frequency bands; ground plane size; impedance bandwidth; mobile handset PIFA antenna; multiband antennas; optimal ground plane dimension; planar inverted-F antenna; rectangular ground plane; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2003. (ICAP 2003). Twelfth International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No. 491)

Print_ISBN

0-85296-752-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp:20030077

Filename

1353637