A dual-loop antenna design for hepta-band WWAN/LTE metal-rimmed smartphone applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 48-58

  Ban, Yong Ling ^a   Qiang, Yun Fei ^a   Chen, Zhi ^a   Kang, Kai ^a   Guo, Jin Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Loop antenna; unbroken metal rim; WWAN LTE antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; METALS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; STRIP METAL;

ANTENNA DESIGN; DETAILED DESIGN; DUAL LOOPS; INNER SYSTEMS; MULTIBAND ANTENNAS; OPERATING BANDS; SMART-PHONE APPLICATIONS; SYSTEM CIRCUITS;

LOOP ANTENNAS;

EID: 84920848986     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2014.2368573     Document Type: Article

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