• DocumentCode
    586251
  • Title

    Challenges for Frequency-Reconfigurable Antennas in Small Terminals

  • Author

    Barrio, Samantha Caporal Del ; Pelosi, Mauro ; Pedersen, Gert F. ; Morris, Art

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Syst., Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    3-6 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    This paper gives an overview of the techniques published over the past years to address continuous frequency tuning. It presents the challenges that have been encountered and relates to each other the parameters that influence the losses of the resulting antenna structure. A mock-up is made with a PIFA and a packaged RF-MEMS tunable capacitor to measure its efficiency as the resonance is tuned towards the LTE-700 band.
  • Keywords
    Long Term Evolution; capacitors; micromechanical devices; planar inverted-F antennas; LTE-700 band; PIFA; continuous frequency tuning; frequency-reconfigurable antennas; packaged RF-MEMS tunable capacitor; resonance efficiency; resulting antenna structure; small terminals; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Bandwidth; Micromechanical devices; Resonant frequency; Tuning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Quebec City, QC
  • ISSN
    1090-3038
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1880-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1090-3038
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VTCFall.2012.6399212
  • Filename
    6399212