On the behaviour of a compact antenna system with non-resonant elements in the presence of the human head

A novel handset antenna technique to solve the increasing demand of mobile bands, the loading effects (mismatching and efficiency losses) and the power absorption introduced by the head is analysed in terms of bandwidth, efficiency and SAR (specific absorption rate). The technique proposed integrates non-resonant elements and its results are compared with those obtained by a planar inverted-F antenna. The main antenna parameters (bandwidth, efficiency in free-space, efficiency regarding the human head presence and SAR) are compared in terms of electromagnetic simulation and measurements. The study concludes that the novel antenna architecture achieves multiband operation from 824–960 MHz and 1710–2170 MHz and become robust to human loading while occupying a reduced volume of just 250 mm3 in a typical handset phone.