Original scientific paper
Recent Advances in PCS Antenna Design and Measurement
Anja K. Skrivervik
Jean-François Zürcher
Abstract
Mobile communications are taking more and more importance in everyday life, creating the need for smaller and lighter mobile terminals. Unlike the electronic circuits, the size of an antenna is not technology related, but imposed by the wavelength of a given application. This makes antenna miniaturization to an art of compromise between size and radiation performances.
In this presentations we will first state the limitations of antenna miniaturization, by reminding of the well known laws linking gain, bandwidth and antenna size. Then some well known ways to reduce antennas sizes will be reviewed and illustrated on a practical example designed and realized in our laboratory. Finally, we will deal with the non trivial problem of small antenna measurement: the problems encountered when measuring small antenna will be presented and some clues on how to proceed correctly will be given.
Keywords
mobile communications; electrically small antenna; antenna measurement
Hrčak ID:
6689
URI
Publication date:
20.10.2002.
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