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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/JKIEES.2016.16.3.169

Design, Analysis, and Equivalent Circuit Modeling of Dual Band PIFA Using a Stub for Performance Enhancement  

Yousaf, Jawad (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Jung, Hojin (Advanced H/W R&D Team 1, Mobile Communication Division, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
Kim, Kwangho (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Nah, Wansoo (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
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Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science / v.16, no.3, 2016 , pp. 169-181 More about this Journal
Abstract
This work presents a new method for enhancing the performance of a dual band Planer Inverted-F Antenna (PIFA) and its lumped equivalent circuit formulation. The performance of a PIFA in terms of return loss, bandwidth, gain, and efficiency is improved with the addition of the proposed open stub in the radiating element of the PIFA without disturbing the operating resonance frequencies of the antenna. In specific cases, various simulated and fabricated PIFA models illustrate that the return loss, bandwidth, gain, and efficiency values of antennas with longer optimum open stub lengths can be enhanced up to 4.6 dB, 17%, 1.8 dBi, and 12.4% respectively, when compared with models that do not have open stubs. The proposed open stub is small and does not interfere with the surrounding active modules; therefore, this method is extremely attractive from a practical implementation point of view. The second presented work is a simple procedure for the development of a lumped equivalent circuit model of a dual band PIFA using the rational approximation of its frequency domain response. In this method, the PIFA's measured frequency response is approximated to a rational function using a vector fitting technique and then electrical circuit parameters are extracted from it. The measured results show good agreement with the electrical circuit results. A correlation study between circuit elements and physical open stub lengths in various antenna models is also discussed in detail; this information could be useful for the enhancement of the performance of a PIFA as well as for its systematic design. The computed radiated power obtained using the electrical model is in agreement with the radiated power results obtained through the full wave electromagnetic simulations of the antenna models. The presented approach offers the advantage of saving computation time for full wave EM simulations. In addition, the electrical circuit depicting almost perfect characteristics for return loss and radiated power can be shared with antenna users without sharing the actual antenna structure in cases involving confidentiality limitations.
Keywords
Equivalent Circuit (EC); Equivalent/Electrical Circuit Model (ECM); Planer Inverted-F Antenna (PIFA); Rational Approximation (RA); Vector Fitting (VF);
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