New Balanced Mobile Antenna with Wide Bandwidth Performance

Zhou, D.; Abd-Alhameed, R.A.; See, C.H.; Alhaddad, A.G.; Excell, P.S.

Abstract

In this paper, a balanced antenna for mobile handset applications with broad bandwidth performance, covering frequencies from 2.6 GHz to 5.8 GHz, is investigated and discussed. The antenna is a variant of folded dipole antenna and a dual-arm on each monopole. The performance of the proposed antenna was analysed and optimised under certain size constrain. For validation, the antenna prototype was fabricated and tested. The performance of this balanced antenna was characterised in terms of the antenna return loss, radiation pattern and power gain. The calculated and measured results in terms of return loss show good agreement and the results also show good wideband characteristics.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (Eucap2009)
• Start Date: Mar 23, 2009
• End Date: Mar 27, 2009
• Acceptance Date: Jan 26, 2009
• Online Publication Date: Jun 5, 2009
• Publication Date: Mar 23, 2009
• Deposit Date: Jun 13, 2019
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Pages: 549-552
• Series Title: Proceedings of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
• Series ISSN: 2164-3342
• Book Title: 2009 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
• ISBN: 9781424447534
• Keywords: antenna radiation patterns, broadband antennas, dipole antennas, microwave antennas, mobile antennas, monopole antennas, UHF antennas
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1873913
• Related Public URLs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5067685