Planar small-size eight-band LTE/WWAN monopole antenna for tablet computers

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4372-4377

  Lu, Jui Han ^a   Wang, Yi Shiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Long term evolution (LTE); monopole antenna; wireless wide area network (WWAN)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA EFFICIENCY; COMPACT ANTENNA; IMPEDANCE BANDWIDTHS; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; MOBILE DEVICE APPLICATIONS; PLANAR MONOPOLE ANTENNA; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; WIRELESS WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84905841691     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2014.2327659     Document Type: Article

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