• DocumentCode
    3288198
  • Title

    Compensation of finger effect on a mobile terminal antenna by antenna selection

  • Author

    Valkonen, Risto ; Myllymäki, Sami ; Huttunen, Arttu ; Holopainen, Jari ; Ilvonen, Janne ; Vainikainen, Pertti ; Jantunen, Heli

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Dept. of Radio Sci. & Eng., Aalto Univ., Aalto, Finland
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    20-24 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    364
  • Lastpage
    367
  • Abstract
    In this paper, compensation of the effect of the user´s finger on the operation of a mobile terminal antenna is studied, using antenna selection as the compensation method. A dual-element antenna is compared with a single-element antenna occupying the same total antenna volume. The results show that antenna selection can provide an improvement of at least 2 dB in total efficiency at GSM1800 frequency band when the antenna is under influence of the index finger of the user.
  • Keywords
    mobile antennas; GSM1800 frequency band; antenna selection; dual-element antenna; finger effect compensation; index finger; mobile terminal antenna; Antenna measurements; Couplings; Fingers; Impedance; Indexes; Mobile antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Sydney, NSW
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7366-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEAA.2010.5648879
  • Filename
    5648879