"UHF antennas"

From Optimal to Industrial Antenna: The Designer Dilemma for Compact NB-IoT Terminal

This work presents the design of a NB-IoT integrated antenna for LTE band 20 on a compact 50x30 mm terminal. The study will start from the Q factor limitation analysis and finish with a simulated prototype considering the different techniques to …

DTC-Enabled Frequency-Tunable Inverted-F Antenna for IoT Applications

In this letter, an integrated frequency-tunable inverted-F antenna is presented. Thanks to a reconfigurable circuit using a digitally tunable capacitor (DTC), the antenna resonant frequency can be shifted over 32 different positions from 600 to 960 …

Design of a Multiband LTE MIMO Antenna System Integrated in its Real Environment

This paper presents a multiband MIMO antenna system with four accesses, with very good performance despite the complex environment that surrounds it. This environment consists of a thick plastic radome protecting the antenna and an aluminum metallic …

Dual-Matching for Single Resonance Miniaturized Antenna for IoT applications

A miniature antenna working in European, Asian and Australian ISM sub-GHz bands is presented for IoT application. The antenna was first designed and simulated to achieve a low quality factor, i.e. having good matching at 896MHz. A second-order …

A digitally tuned reconfigurable patch antenna for IoT devices

In this paper, a reconfigurable patch antenna design operating at 868MHz for Low Power Wide Area Network (LoRa), 1.58 GHz for Global Positioning System (GPS) and 2.4 GHz for Bluetooth is presented. The design is reconfigurable thanks to the …

Characterization of miniature antenna for sub-GHz on-body applications

In this paper, a fast characterization technique for on-body small devices is presented. This method is used to extract the radiation performance of two different structures placed on a belt over a human abdomen at 868 MHz. Results show that the …

Validation of an open source software defined radio test bed

This paper presents a low-cost measurement method for MIMO antenna performance assessment based on the open-source OpenAirInterface initiative. MISO 8×1 measurements are presented to experimentally prove the reproductibility of the test method, using …

3D compact antenna using liquid metal and additive technologies

This paper presents a miniature antenna in Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band fabricated using liquid metal and additive technologies. Such an approach allows the accurate realization of compact and complex antenna structures. The design as well as the …

Antenna Q bounds for given directivity: a case study of a directive parasitic element antenna

In certain communication applications it is advantageous to constrain the shape of the far-field, as to make it act as a spatial filter. This can mitigate interference from other antennas. Such constraints on the far-field behavior, in particular for …

Compact integrated IoT antenna robust to the effects of the environment

In this paper, a reconfigurable antenna integrated into a miniature device for asset tracking is presented. This antenna system has the ability to compensate environment effect by tuning the antenna resonance frequency. The proposed solution is …