Zhang 2017
Zhang 2017
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Xiaoyan Zhang1,2 | Miao Tian1 | Aiyun Zhan1 | Zhiwei Liu1 | Haiwen Liu1
1
School of Information Engineering, East
Abstract
China Jiaotong University, Nanchang,
China A frequency-reconfigurable antenna is presented for multiband (GSM850/900/GLO-
2
State Key Laboratory of Millimeter NASS1616/DCS1800/PCS 1900/UMTS/LTE2300/2500/WLAN) mobile handset
Waves, Nanjing, China applications. It mainly consists of radiating elements with two PIN diodes. By
switching the ON/OFF states of the PIN diodes, the proposed structure can operate in
Correspondence three states: OFF–ON, ON–OFF, and ON–ON. When PIN diodes are in the OFF–
Xiaoyan Zhang, School of Information ON states, the proposed antenna can cover the GSM850/900, PCS1900, and
Engineering, East China Jiaotong
UMTS2100 bands by operating in Invented-F antenna (IFA) mode. When PIN
University, Nanchang, China.
Email: [email protected] diodes are in the ON–OFF states, the antenna can cover the LTE2300/2500 and
WLAN2400 bands in monopole mode. Moreover, when PIN diodes are switched to
Funding information the ON–ON states, the designed antenna works in loop mode and its resonant fre-
Open Project of State Key Laboratory of quencies include the GLONASS1616, DCS1800/1900, and LTE2500 bands. With
Millimeter Wave through, Grant/Award the reconfigurable technique, the proposed antenna achieves a compact size of 15 3
Number: #K201829; National Natural
28.5 mm2 with high efficiency from 34% to 84.86% in the total frequency range.
Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award
Number: #81460275; Jiangxi Provincial
Department of Education Fund, Grant/ KEYWORDS
Award Number: #GJJ160504; Jiangxi frequency PIN diode, mobile handset antenna, multiband, reconfigurable antenna
Natural Science Foundation, Grant/Award
Number: #20161BAB202062
T A BL E 1 Frequency bands and size of previously reported antennas and the proposed antenna
12 GSM850/900/DCS1800/ 7 73 70 3 0.8
PCS1900/UMTS2100/
LTE2300/2500
13 GSM850/900/DCS1800/ 7 55 3 533
PCS1900/UMTS2100/
LTE2300/2500
15 GSM850/900/DCS1800/ 8 75 3 103 5
PCS1900/UMTS2100/
LTE2300/2500/WLAN
Various switching technologies such as radiofrequency controlling the state of the PIN diodes. The proposed struc-
micro-electro-mechanical systems (RF-MEMS) switches,7 ture operates in three modes and can cover the GSM850
variable capacitance switches,7,8 varactor diodes,9,10 and PIN (824–894 MHz), GSM900 (880–960 MHz), GLONASS1616
diodes11–15 are used to design the frequency-reconfigurable (1610–1626.5 MHz), DCS1800 (1710–1880 MHz),
antennas. Among them, the PIN diodes are particularly well PCS1900 (1850–1990 MHz), UMTS2100 (1920–
suited for integration in current portable electronic devices 2170 MHz), LTE2300 (2300–2400 MHz), WLAN (2400–
owing to its simple design, small size, and economic cost. 2480 MHz), and LTE2500 (2500–2690 MHz) bands. To
In this article, a reconfigurable printed antenna with pla- compare our proposed antenna with antennas reported in refs
nar structure is proposed for mobile handset applications by 12–15, which were published in recent years, the operating
bands and the sizes of the antennas are summarized in Table
1. It shows that the proposed antenna covers more frequency
bands and has a compact size.
This article is arranged in the following manner. In Sec-
tion 2, the configuration of the proposed antenna is described
in detail. In Section 3, the working principle of the antenna
is analyzed. In Section 4, the measured results of the
Antenna 3 (ON–ON) ON ON
4 | MEASURED RESULTS
control the bias states of the PIN diodes. Two 500 X resistors
and four 470 nH inductors are utilized to control the bias
current.
Figure 9 shows the measured S11 of the proposed
antenna. The measured results show that when the diodes in
FIGURE 10 Measured results of the proposed antenna: peak gain OFF–ON states, the 26 dB impedance bandwidth of the pro-
and efficiency posed antenna is 24.2% (820–1030 MHz) at the lower band,
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which covers GSM850/900 bands, and 25.9% (1900–2470 through Grant #K201829, National Natural Science Foun-
MHz) at the upper band, which covers UMTS2100/PCS1900 dation of China through Grant #81460275, Jiangxi Provin-
bands. Then, for the diodes in ON–OFF states, 30.1% band- cial Department of Education Fund #GJJ160504, Jiangxi
width of 2090–2810 MHz is obtained. This antenna can be Natural Science Foundation through Grant
employed for LTE2300/2500 bands and WLAN2400 band. #20161BAB202062, all of them from China.
While, when the two PIN diodes are turned on, 20.8%
(1600–2090 MHz) and 5.8% (2640–2800 MHz) bandwidths R EFE RE NC ES
are achieved, which can cover the GLONASS1610/
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