WWAN/LTE PRINTED LOOP TABLET COMPUTER ANTENNA AND ITS BODY SAR ANALYSIS

A WWAN/LTE printed loop antenna for tablet computer application is presented. The printed loop antenna is a half-wavelength loop strip coupled-fed by a patch monopole, which performs not only as a coupling feed but also as an efficient radiator for the antenna. By embedding a printed distributed inductor in the loop strip, dual-resonance excitation of the half-wavelength mode of the coupled-fed loop antenna is obtained, which forms the antenna's lower band at about 800 MHz to cover the LTE700/GSM850/900 operation (704-960 MHz). The antenna's upper band is formed by both the resonant modes contributed by the patch monopole and the higher order resonant modes contributed by the loop strip. The upper band shows a large bandwidth (>1 GHz) to cover the GSM1800/1900/UMTS/LTE2300/2500 operation (1710-2690 MHz). Further, with a planar and compact structure (12 x 75 mm(2)), the antenna is suitable to be disposed in the limited space inside the tablet computer and meets the body specific absorption rate (SAR) requirement (<1.6 W/kg for 1-g body tissue) for practical applications. Details of the proposed antenna and its body SAR results are presented. (C) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 53:2912-2919, 2011; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26377