Small-Size Seven-Band WWAN/LTE Antenna with Distributed LC Resonant Circuit for Smartphone Application

A compact small-size coupled-fed antenna composed of an inverted L-shaped feeding strip and a shorting strip with double branches for the WWAN/LTE bands operation in the internal smartphone application is presented. With the help of a novel distributed LC resonant circuit, the proposed antenna can n...

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Main Authors: Yan-Wu Liang, Hao-Miao Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/630674
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Summary:A compact small-size coupled-fed antenna composed of an inverted L-shaped feeding strip and a shorting strip with double branches for the WWAN/LTE bands operation in the internal smartphone application is presented. With the help of a novel distributed LC resonant circuit, the proposed antenna can not only realize the miniaturization (15 × 28 × 4 mm3) and multiband to cover 2G/3G/4G bands but also be tuned and optimized easily. The measured bandwidth with 3 : 1 VSWR is 163 MHz (804–967 MHz) at the low-band and 1615 MHz (1665–3280 MHz) at the high-band. What is more, the lowest measured efficiency in the whole frequency band is more than 52% for practical applications. The operating principles and main parameters are detailed below. And successful simulation, fabrication, and measurement of the proposed antenna are shown in this paper.
ISSN:1687-5869
1687-5877