Electrically tunable antenna design procedure for mobile applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2789-2797

  Huang, Libo ^a   Russer, Peter ^b  

^a Continental AG ^*  (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital video broadcasting handheld (DVB H); Electrically tunable antenna; GSM; Mobile antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BROADCASTING; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DECODING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; IMAGE CODING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; SIGNAL ENCODING; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TUNING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DESIGN PROCEDURES; DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING-HANDHELD (DVB-H); ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE ANTENNA; GSM; HIGH POWERS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NON LINEARITIES; NONLINEARITY SUPPRESSIONS; RETURN LOSSES; TUNABLE ANTENNAS; TUNING DEVICES;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 57849088253     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2006801     Document Type: Conference Paper

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