ORTHOGONAL MULTI-ANTENNAS FOR MOBILE HANDSETS BASED ON CHARACTERISTIC MODE MANIPULATION

摘要

A novel multi-antenna design approach is proposed to obtain uncorrelated and energy efficient antennas. By manipulating the chassis, more than one characteristic mode is enabled to resonate at frequency below 1 GHz. With proper excitations for different characteristic modes, which are inherently orthogonal to each other, well performed multiple antennas with low mutual coupling and correlation are achieved. Three examples of chassis manipulation, a bezel structure and two T-shaped structures with metal strips along the chassis, are introduced. With efficient excitations of the fundamental dipole mode and T-strip mode, two antennas with low correlations and high total antenna efficiencies are achieved, with both antennas covering one or more of the low frequency LTE bands 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, and 20 in combination with one or more of high frequency LTE bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 21, 23, 24, and 25.