Original scientific paper
Measurements of Mobile Phone Antennas in Small Reverberation Chambers
Per-Simon Kildal
Abstract
The paper gives a summary of the work that have been performed in the Antenna group at Chalmers University of Technology on measuring antennas for mobile phones in reverberation chambers. Reverberation chambers were originally developed for EMC measurements. We have shown that it also can be used to measure performance of antennas that are designed for use in multipath propagation environment, as well as the performance of complete phones. The antennas and phones can be measured with or without the presence of a head phantom or other objects. The antenna measurements give both radiation efficiency and reflection coefficient at different positions relative to an object such as a head phantom, as they would appear if the antenna and the head phantom were located in free space. The phone measurements give the total radiated power, which we refer to as the telephone communication power (TCP), also at different positions relative to an object. The present summary includes results from both antenna and phone measurements.
Keywords
mobile phone; antenna; reverberation chamber
Hrčak ID:
6693
URI
Publication date:
20.10.2002.
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