Effects of hand phantom on mobile phone antenna performance

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2763-2770

  Li, Chung Huan ^a   Ofli, Erdem ^b   Chavannes, Nicolas ^b   Kuster, Niels ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Schmid & Partner Engineering AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antenna design; Computer aided analysis; Computer aided engineering; FDTD methods; Hand phantom; Mobile communication; Mobile device antennas; Numerical simulation; Optimization; Over the air (OTA) performance

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; FDTD METHODS; HAND PHANTOM; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OVER-THE-AIR (OTA) PERFORMANCE;

BANDPASS AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HAND TOOLS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; RADAR ANTENNAS; TELEPHONE SETS;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 70349231204     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2027081     Document Type: Article

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