Study and Reduction of the Mutual Coupling Between Two Mobile Phone PIFAs Operating in the DCS 1800 and UMTS Bands

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3063-3074

  Diallo, Aliou ^a   Luxey, Cyril ^a   Le Thuc, Philippe ^a   Staraj, Robert ^a   Kossiavas, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Efficiency; finite sized ground plane; mobile; mutual coupling; phones; planar inverted F antennas (PIFAs); small antennas

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008049301     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.883981     Document Type: Article

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