Cellphone Antenna Design - RF Cafe Forums

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Ralph Zappa
 Post subject: Cellphone Antenna Design
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:29 pm 
 
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Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2003 6:43 pm

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Location: U.K.

Hello out there,

While I am not an antenna designer, I would be quite interested in a brief tutorial on how the metal patterns for the multi-band cellphone antennas are determined.

Reading through a textbook would just discourage me. I am hoping one of you bright gents can provide for this forum a "Cellphone Antenna Design for Dummies" briefing on just how you manage to make such bewildering-looking, 3-dimensional antennas work so well.

Surely I am not the only one curious about these marvelous antennas. Someone had to ask, so it might as well have been me.

Cheers,

Ralph Z.

Posted  11/12/2012