Ground Radiation Antenna for Mobile Devices Using Controlled Endless Metal Rim Mode

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this paper, we introduce a ground radiation antenna that uses controlled endless metal rim modes. In the proposed technique, the metal rim mode is tuned and excited as a one‐wavelength radiator by a small ground radiation antenna. The proposed antenna occupies a clearance of 1 mm × 4 mm in a 30 mm × 20 mm ground plane. A metal rim with dimensions of 34 mm × 24 mm surrounds the ground plane, and the metal rim is separated from the ground plane by a gap of 2 mm. In addition, a lumped capacitor is inserted between the metal rim and the ground plane to control the characteristic mode of the metal rim such that the resonance of the metal rim is tuned to be equal to the operating frequency. By performing simulations and measurements, we compare the performance of the proposed antenna with that of a reference antenna that does not have an inserted capacitor between the metal rim and the ground plane. The results show that a significant improvement of the radiation performance is obtained by employing the proposed technique.

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