Broadband planar DTV antenna in the portable media player held by the user's hands

✍ Scribed by Wei-Yu Li; Kin-Lu Wong; Jeen-Sheen Row

• Book ID: 102949063
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 846 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-2477
• DOI: 10.1002/mop.22639

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Effects of the user's hands on the broadband planar DTV antenna in the portable media player (PMP) are studied. The antenna has a wide operating bandwidth covering the 470–806 MHz band for DTV signal reception and a one‐layer equivalent simulation hand model including the user's forearm with a relative permittivity of 33.5 and a conductivity of 0.47 S/m is used for the simulation study. Three different conditions of the user's hands (right hand only, left hand only, and both hands) holding the PMP are studied, and their effects on the return loss, radiation efficiency, and radiation patterns of the studied DTV antenna are analyzed. In addition, effects of the user's hands holding the PMP at different positions relative to the studied DTV antenna are analyzed. Results have shown that, for the worst case, the radiation efficiency of the studied DTV antenna is still larger than 60% over the operating band, making the antenna very promising for practical applications. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 1841–1844, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22639