Diversity performance of dual-antenna handsets near operator tissue

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1017-1024

  Green, Bruce M ^b   Jensen, Michael A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MOBILE ANTENNAS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; TELEPHONE SETS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIVERSITY GAIN; DUAL ANTENNA HANDSETS; ENVELOPE CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INDUSTRIAL BAND; MEAN EFFECTIVE GAIN; MEDICAL BAND; MULTIPATH INTERFERENCE; SCIENTIFIC BAND;

DIVERSITY RECEPTION;

EID: 0034217272     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.876318     Document Type: Article

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