Miniaturized Balanced Antenna with Integrated Balun for Practical LTE Applications

Elfergani, I. T. E.; Rodriguez, J.; Abdussalam, F. M.; See, Chan H.; Abd-Alhameed, R. A.

Abstract

A design of dual-band balanced antenna structure operating in the 700 and 2600MHz LTE bands is studied and investigated. The overall dimensions of the radiator are 50 × 18 × 7 mm3 allowing it to be easily concealed within mobile handsets. A broad-band balun is designed and integrated with the antenna handset in order to provide the feeding network and perform the measurements of the antenna radiation performance. Prototypes of proposed antenna with and without balun are fabricated and verified. The simulated and practical results with and without the handheld effects in terms of reflection coefficient, power gain and radiation pattern, are studied and shown reasonable agreement

Citation

Elfergani, I. T. E., Rodriguez, J., Abdussalam, F. M., See, C. H., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2017). Miniaturized Balanced Antenna with Integrated Balun for Practical LTE Applications. Radioengineering, 26(2), 444-452. https://doi.org/10.13164/re.2017.0444

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 20, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jun 14, 2017
• Publication Date: Jun 14, 2017
• Deposit Date: Mar 14, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 19, 2019
• Journal: Radioengineering
• Print ISSN: 1210-2512
• Publisher: Radioengineering Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 444-452
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13164/re.2017.0444
• Keywords: Balanced antenna, printed dipole, dual-band, LTE, balun
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1660400
• Contract Date: Mar 14, 2019