A diversity antenna for very small 800-MHz band portable telephones

A diversity antenna comprising a short whip antenna top loaded with a small cylinder and a new built-in antenna has been developed for very small portable telephones in the 800-MHz band. Wire-grid analyses and whip antenna experiments yielded good radiation characteristic results when the equivalent electrical length of the whip antenna equalled a half wavelength. The built-in antenna features extreme compactness, its size being one-third that of a conventional planar inverted-F antenna. The characteristics were investigated experimentally, and an antenna of 3.5 cc volume with a gain of -1 dBd and a bandwidth of 30 MHz was designed at 879 MHz. Finally, the diversity characteristics were subjected to field measurements and a diversity correlation of 0.26 was obtained.<>