Low-loss tuning circuits for frequency-tunable small resonant antennas

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 1882-1887

  Ollikainen, Jani ^a   Kivekäs, Outi ^a   Vainikainen, Pertti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

And distortion; Bandwidth; Efficiency; Frequency tuning; Resonator; Small antenna

Indexed keywords

AND DISTORTION; ANTENNA STRUCTURES; CIRCUIT MODELS; DESIGN CURVES; DESIGN PROCEDURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATORS; FREQUENCY SHIFT; FREQUENCY TUNING; LOW LOSS; MEASURED RESULTS; MICROSTRIP PATCH; NARROW BANDS; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS; POWER-LOSSES; RESONANT ANTENNAS; SMALL ANTENNA; STARTING VALUES; THEORETICAL RESULT; TUNING CIRCUITS;

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; DESIGN; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RESONATORS;

TUNING;

EID: 41549084665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2002.1045505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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