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Overview of some progress of mobile terminal antenna technology

  • Zhinong Ying*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Varies multi-band antenna concepts In the 1990s, the mobile phone industry experienced a dramatic development. The first stage was from analog standard to digital standard development, for example, analog standard such as AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System), NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) and ETACS; digital standard such as GSM, D-AMPS and CDMA. The second stage was from single band to multi-band due to the strong capacity requirements. DCS1800 and PCS1900 were introduced in the middle of 1990s. Ying first proposed a dual band non-uniform helical antenna [1, 2], which became later a popular antenna for dual band mobile phones. In the same time, P. Haapala proposed a dual band mono-helix antenna [3]. G. Hayes proposed a meander type dual band antenna [4]. In 1997, Ying proposed a branch multi-band antenna [5] [6], which has been applied into several Ericsson mobile phones. Andersson proposed a broad band shark fin antenna later [7]. In 1998, an internal antenna was introduced to the mobile phone, which caused a lot of market interest. We started some research work in this area and soon Ying proposed an internal printed spiral antenna and a dual band printed antenna [8] [9]. Later in the same year, a dual band internal antenna for a mobile phone was developed [10]. The antenna concept is based on a branched PIFA antenna. More development work was performed, in order to enhance the bandwidth to fulfil multiband applications. A parasitic element coupling antenna was developed [11], the practical antenna can meet the application of GSM/DCS/PCS tri-band [12, 14]. At the same time, more frequency bands were introduced, UMTS, Wireless LAN are the examples. Ying proposed a tuneable antenna for this kind application [13]. To meet the global system requirement, some so-called penta band antenna concepts are proposed recently [15, 16, 17]. The capacitive feeding and high dielectric loading are introduced in the new concept. The multi-band technique is still a hot topic in the mobile terminal application.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2005 18th International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, ICECom 2005
PublisherIEEE Signal Processing Society
Publication date2005
Article number1613421
ISBN (Electronic)9536037440, 9789536037445
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event2005 18th International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, ICECom 2005 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Duration: 12 Oct 2005 → 14 Oct 2005

Conference

Conference2005 18th International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, ICECom 2005
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityDubrovnik
Period12/10/2005 → 14/10/2005
Series2005 18th International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, ICECom 2005

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