Actual diversity performance of a multiband diversity antenna with hand and head effects

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1547-1556

  Plicanic, Vanja ^a,b   Lau, Buon Kiong ^b   Derneryd, Anders ^a,b   Ying, Zhinong ^a  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actual diversity gain; Antenna diversity; Correlation; Handset antennas; User effects

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL DIVERSITY GAIN; ANTENNA DIVERSITY; CORRELATION; HANDSET ANTENNAS; USER EFFECTS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; DEGRADATION; FREQUENCY BANDS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; TELEPHONE SETS;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 67349168280     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2016707     Document Type: Article

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