New reconfigurable small antenna for DVB-H and GPS standard

Author

Canneva, Florian ; Ferrero, Fabien ; Ribero, Jean-Marc ; Staraj, Robert

Author_Institution

LEAT, UNSA, Valbonne, France

fYear

2011

fDate

3-8 July 2011

Firstpage

1549

Lastpage

1552

Abstract

This paper presents a new miniature reconfigurable DVB-H and GPS antenna for a portable TV or tablet PC device. The antenna consists in a Printed-Inverted-F-Antenna (PIFA) loaded by a varactor diode. The radiating element has a size of 30*30*5 mm³ and is mounted on a 230*130mm² ground plane. This antenna is able to maintain a return loss below -10 dB on a 8 MHz bandwidth reconfigurable channel from 450 to 900 MHz and cover a 50 MHz bandwidth around 1.575GHz for the GPS standard. Then, this radiating element reaches to cover the whole frequency band specification of the DVB-H standard while keeping a good efficiency despite of the strong miniaturization.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; UHF antennas; digital video broadcasting; microstrip antennas; planar inverted-F antennas; portable computers; television antennas; varactors; DVB-H standard; GPS standard; PIFA; bandwidth 50 MHz; digital video broadcasting-handheld; frequency 450 MHz to 900 MHz; portable TV; printed inverted F antenna; radiating element; reconfigurable channel; reconfigurable small antenna; return loss; tablet PC device; varactor diode; Antennas; Bandwidth; Digital video broadcasting; Frequency measurement; Loss measurement; Resonant frequency; Varactors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Spokane, WA

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9562-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2011.5996593

Filename

5996593