Effect of ground plane bending on mobile terminal antenna performance

2013 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 590-594

  Rasilainen, Kimmo ^a   Ilvonen, Janne ^a   Holopainen, Jari ^a   Valkonen, Risto ^a   Raisanen, Antti V ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bending; capacitive coupling elements (CCE); equivalent circuit; mobile terminal antennas; quality factor

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE COUPLINGS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; GROUND PLANES; MOBILE TERMINAL ANTENNAS; QUALITY FACTORS;

BENDING (FORMING); COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84881276314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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