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Wideband Tunable PIFA Antenna with Loaded Slot Structure for Mobile Handset and LTE Applications

Elfergani, Issa T.
Hussaini, Abubakar S.
Rodriguez, Jonathan
See, Chan H.
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2014-04
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© 2014 Radioengineering Society (Czech Republic). Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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A compact planar inverted F antenna (PIFA) with a tuneable frequency response is presented. Tuning of the resonant frequency is realized by loading a varactor on an embedded slot of the proposed antenna structure without further optimizing other antenna geometry parameters. The antenna exhibits a wide frequency range from 1570 to 2600 MHz with a good impedance matching (S11 ≤ -10dB) covering the GPS, PCS, DCS, UMTS, WLAN and LTE systems. To validate the theoretical model and design concept, the antenna prototype was fabricated and measured. The compact size of the antenna is 15mm × 8mm × 3mm, which makes this antenna a good candidate for mobile handset and wireless communication applications.
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Elfergani I, Hussaini AS, Rodriguez J et al (2014) Wideband Tunable PIFA Antenna with Loaded Slot Structure for Mobile Handset and LTE Applications. Radioengineering. 23(1): 345-355.
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