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A Study on Isolation Improvement of LTE-PIFA Used Stub Structure on Ground Plane

접지면 위의 스터브를 이용한 LTE-PIFA의 격리도 개선 연구

  • Park, Chan-Jin (Department of Radio Communication Engneering, Korea Maritime University) ;
  • Min, Kyoeng-Sik (Department of Radio Communication Engneering, Korea Maritime University)
  • 박찬진 (한국해양대학교 전파공학과) ;
  • 민경식 (한국해양대학교 전파공학과)
  • Received : 2013.02.14
  • Accepted : 2013.03.11
  • Published : 2013.04.30

Abstract

This paper presents a design for improvement of isolation characteristics by the inserted stub structure on ground plane of a handy terminal which is composed of a main antenna and a sub antenna covered LTE bandwidth. In order to compensate for a resonance length of proposed antenna and to realize a high isolation characteristic, a pair of stub was inserted and located on ground plane that currents from two antennas were converged. A simulated isolation characteristic of antenna without stub at the LTE class 13 band was about -5 dB, but its characteristics of proposed antenna with two stubs at uplink(777~787 MHz) and downlink(746~756 MHz) of the LTE class 13 band were about -12 dB and -15 dB, respectively. An average gain of a fabricated antenna with two stubs was observed about -2 dBi above and it showed good results with comparison of business condition that the average gain of commercial handy terminal has to appear -4 dBi above. The measured S-parameter characteristics and radiation patterns showed a reasonable agreement with the simulation results.

본 논문은 Main 안테나와 LTE 대역을 커버하는 Sub 안테나로 구성되어 있는 휴대단말기의 접지면에 스터브를 삽입하여 격리 특성을 향상시킬 수 있는 설계법을 제안한다. 제안된 안테나의 공진 길이를 보상하고 높은 격리 특성을 실현하기 위해, 한 쌍의 스터브가 전류가 수렴되는 접지면 위에 삽입되었다. LTE class 13 대역에서 스터브가 없는 안테나의 모의 실험된 격리 특성은 약 -5 dB였으나, 두 개의 스터브를 가진 제안된 안테나의 격리 특성은 LTE class 13의 uplink(777~787 MHz)와 downlink(746~756 MHz)에서 약 -12 dB와 약 -15 dB의 높은 격리 특성을 나타냈다. 제작된 두 개의 스터브를 가진 안테나의 평균 이득은 약 -2 dBi 이상으로 상업용 휴대단말기에 요구되는 -4 dBi보다 좋은 결과를 보였다. 측정된 산란 파라미터 특성과 방사 패턴은 모의 실험결과와 합리적인 일치를 보였다.

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