Total efficiency dynamics of handheld devices influenced by human hand

Author

Pelosi, Mauro

Author_Institution

Aalborg Univ., Aalborg

fYear

2008

fDate

15-26 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The radiation characteristics of small terminal antennas are deteriorated by the presence of the human hand, which influence reveals to be more important than the head. Several hand models and configurations have been compared using the FDTD method, in order to find the amount of absorption and mismatch loss for both monopole and PIFA antennas at 1.8 GHz. It was found a location-dependent behavior of the PIFA on the handset, which affects both absorption loss and detuning. Obtained results confirm that the position of the hand strongly affects radiation efficiency, while absorption loss reveals to be the main issue, being often several dB higher than mismatch loss.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; biological effects of microwaves; electromagnetic wave absorption; finite difference time-domain analysis; monopole antennas; planar inverted-F antennas; FDTD method; PIFA antennas; absorption detuning; absorption loss; antenna radiation characteristics; handheld devices; human hand; location-dependent behavior; mismatch loss; monopole antennas; small terminal antennas; Absorption; Finite difference methods; Geometry; Handheld computers; Humans; Imaging phantoms; Resonance; Solid modeling; Telephone sets; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Student Paper, 2008 Annual IEEE Conference

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2156-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AISPC.2008.4460565

Filename

4460565