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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2013.24.4.374

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

Park, Chan-Jin (Department of Radio Communication Engneering, Korea Maritime University)
Min, Kyoeng-Sik (Department of Radio Communication Engneering, Korea Maritime University)
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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.
Keywords
LTE(Long Term Evolution); Stub; PIFA; Isolation Characteristic; Average Gain;
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