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H. Y. Amin, J. Chen, M. Berg and A. Pärssinen, "Tunable Front-end Design with a Dual-band Antenna for Small Cellular Devices," 2019 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Krakow, Poland, 2019, pp. 1-5

Tunable front-end design with a dual-band antenna for small cellular devices

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Author: Amin, H. Yadegar1; Chen, J.1; Berg, M.1;
Organizations: 1Centre for Wireless Communications - Radio Technologies Research Unit (CWC-RT), University of Oulu, Finland
Format: article
Version: accepted version
Access: open
Online Access: PDF Full Text (PDF, 4.1 MB)
Persistent link: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2019121949034
Language: English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019
Publish Date: 2019-12-19
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Abstract

Strict power and form factor requirements of miniaturized IoT wearable devices have introduced severe challenges in equipping them with multi-band cellular IoT connectivity. The antenna front-end renders the primary obstacle since supporting narrow and multi-band cellular connectivity requires a range with extensive coverage and high selectivity. This fact, in turn, would require a larger antenna and multiband filtering. Recently, high-Q tunable antennas have shown great potential in eliminating multiband filtering. However, their coverage and tuning range in small dimensions has proved to be inadequate to present a global coverage. This paper proposes a novel tunable antenna front-end architecture to address this problem. The proposed architecture benefits a dual-band, high-Q and tunable antenna in conjunction with tunable filters to cover a large variety of LTE-M bands in the resolution of 700 MHz to 2155 MHz including bands: 3, 4, 12, 13, 17 and 20. The design and implementation are discussed in detail, and related measurements are presented to prove the tuning capability.

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Series: IEEE Proceedings of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
ISSN: 2164-3342
ISSN-L: 2164-3342
ISBN: 978-88-907018-8-7
ISBN Print: 978-1-5386-8127-5
Pages: 1 - 5
Host publication: Proceedings of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP2019), 31 March-5 April 2019, Krakow, Poland
Conference: European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
Type of Publication: A4 Article in conference proceedings
Field of Science: 213 Electronic, automation and communications engineering, electronics
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Funding: This work was supported in part by the Academy of Finland 6Genesis Flagship (grant no. 318927).
Academy of Finland Grant Number: 318927
Detailed Information: 318927 (Academy of Finland Funding decision)
Copyright information: © 2019 EurAAP/EuCAP. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the copyright owner.