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Cell Phone Antennas
Contents
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The Icebreaker: First Cell Phone
Facts about the first cell phone
Trends in Cell-Phone Development
Antenna An Introduction
Types of Antennas used in Cell phones
Retractable Monopole Antenna
Helical Antenna
Intenna
Planar Inverted-F Antenna (PIFA)
Antennas in some of Todays Smartphones
SAR Measurement
Advancements & Future Technologies
References





The Icebreaker: First Cell-Phone
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Dr. Martin Cooper at Motorola Inc.
Thin phone: 7.2 [mm]
Motorola ULTRA
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DynaTAC
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The first
DynaTAC
phone
weighted
around 2.2
Kgs (approx.)
The battery
life would
last for
only 20
minutes
Nicknamed
the
The BRICK
Its cost
was
around
4,000 US
Dollars
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Quick Facts About the First Cell Phone
Trends in Cell-Phone Development
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Antenna- An Introduction
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An Antenna converts electromagnetic radiation into electric
current, or vice versa.
Need of Antenna :
For transmission and reception of the radio signal.
Antennas are required by any radio receiver or transmitter to
couple its electrical connection to the electromagnetic field.

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Types of Antennas used in Cell Phones
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Following are some of the antennas used in cellular phones:
External Antennas
Retractable Monopole (whips) antennas
Helical antennas
Internal Antennas
Microstrip antennas (MSA)
Planar inverted-F antennas (PIFA)
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Retractable Monopole Antenna
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An antenna that we can retract.
Basically a dipole antenna with top loading (looks like
a hat)
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Helical (Stubby) Antenna
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When we open a cap, we can see a helical antenna.
(looks like a spring)
We dont have to retract. It is convenient for users.
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Ceramic Helical Antenna
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High permittivity Small antenna size
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Intenna
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Internal antenna: The antenna is embedded inside the
phone which is not visible to us.
A phone case is strongly related to an intenna.
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Intenna for 3G Phone
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A metal strip pattern is served as an antenna.
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Planar Inverted F Antenna (PIFA)
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Radiator Signal Input
Coaxial
Cable
Original Form
PIFA
Integrated PIFA
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Triple-Band Antenna
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Intenna: internal antenna
Resonance: 900, 1800, 1900 [MHz]
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PIFA for Cell-Phone
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Resonance Graph
PIFA for Notebook
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Antennas for Galaxy Nexus & Galaxy S
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Galaxy Nexus
Galaxy S
Apples Antennagate
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Death grip: when we touch a certain part of an iPhone 4, the
ongoing call may gets dropped.
Stainless steel frame as multi-band antennas.
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Iphone 4
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SAR Measurement
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SAR: Specific Absorption Rate
Our brain can absorb Electromagnetic (EM) power. The
SAR measures how much power our head absorbs.
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Advancements & Future Technologies
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References
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1) Kin-Lu Wong, Planar Antennas for Wireless Communication, Published by John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., Chapter: 2, Pages: 26-65, 2003.
2) C. Rowell, E.Y. Lam, Mobile-phone antenna design, IEEE Antennas and Propagation
Magazine, Vol. 54, No. 4, Page(s): 14 34, 2012.
3) Images from shutterstock.com, antenna-theory.com, istockphoto.com, empire.de,
antenova.com, nearfield.org, gsmarena.com.
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