A miniature spiral diversity antenna system with high overall gain coverage and low SAR

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 49-52

  Sayem, Abu T M ^a,b   Khan, Sadia ^c   Ali, Mohammod ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^c University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas; Diversity; Planar inverted F antenna (PIFA); Specific absorption rate (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY; DIVERSITY ANTENNAS; GAIN PERFORMANCE; GROUND PLANES; HAND MODELS; MUTUAL COUPLINGS; PLANAR INVERTED-F ANTENNA (PIFA); RETURN LOSS; SINGLE ANTENNAS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR); SPECIFIC ANTHROPOMORPHIC MANNEQUINS; DIVERSITY ANTENNA; HAND MODEL; MUTUAL COUPLING; PLANAR INVERTED-F ANTENNA; SINGLE ANTENNA; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS; RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 65249149512     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.2010961     Document Type: Article

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