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A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application
  This paper presents a tunable balanced antenna covering WLAN frequency bands near 2.4 GHz (2.4-2.4835 GHz) and 5 GHz (5.15-5.35 GHz & 5.650-5.925 GHz), for mobile application. The design is based on loading two variable capacitors onto the planar balanced antenna to electronically tune its resonant frequency; the higher frequency was tuned with the capacitance varying from 0.1pf to 0.3pf, while the lower frequency band remains constant. Performance of the proposed antenna was analyzed and optimized against the two targeted frequency bands. For validation, the antenna prototype was fabricated and tested then the measured results were compared to simulation ones. The performance of this proposed antenna was verified and characterized in terms of the antenna reflection coefficient |S₁₁|, radiation pattern and power gain.

  • Date:

    31 December 2011

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    IEEE

  • DOI:

    10.1109/icecs.2011.6122326

  • Library of Congress:

    TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    621.38 Electronics & Communications engineering

  • Funders:

    Historic Funder (pre-Worktribe)

Citation

Elfergani, I., Abd-Alhameed, R., Ali, N., Alhaddad, A., See, C., & Cabongomuqueba, E. (2011). A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application. In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, 516-519. https://doi.org/10.1109/icecs.2011.6122326

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Keywords

antenna radiation patterns, mobile handsets, multifrequency antennas, planar antennas, wireless LAN

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