Mobile and terminal antennas

In English This project deals with the analysis of antennas for mobiles and terminals in the form of a patch element on a grounded substrate. A special case of this antenna element is the PIFA-element. The analysis is based on the propagator method, a vector generalisation of the transmission line theory, that has been extended to the analysis of surface waves in inhomogeneous permittivity profiles. Analyses of combined antenna radiation pattern and propagation channel characteristics have been initiated in order to demonstrate the performance advantage of exploiting two-antenna signals on a terminal for diversity or interference suppression. A generic two-antenna terminal is presented in this paper which improves capacity on reception. Signal correlation coefficients that depend on the mutual coupling are calculated.