Invited: Characteristic Mode Based Antenna Design – a Straight Forward Approach to Small Form Factor Antenna Integration

Dirk Manteuffel

University of Kiel, Germany

Abstract

When integrating antennas into the chassis of the application the performance is dominated by the integration impairments. Often, excitation of the chassis can be utilized to achieve both, good antenna performance and a small form factor. The Theory of Characteristic Modes (TCM) enables profound understanding on how such structures work and it can even be utilized as a valuable tool for straight forward design. The talk introduces to the TCM and shows how it can be used to design antennas for small mobile terminals, automotive applications and massive multi antenna systems for future mobile communication systems.

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Dirk Manteuffel was born in Issum, Germany in 1970. He received the Dipl.‑Ing. degree in electrical engineering fromDuisburgUniversity in 1998 and the Dr.‑Ing. degree from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2002. In 2004 he received the young scientist award of the Vodafone foundation for science for his research on the analysis and design of integrated mobile phone antennas with special emphasis on the interaction with the user.

From 1998 to 2009 he joint IMST inGermany. As a project manager he was responsible for industrial antenna development and advanced projects in the field of antennas and EM modeling.

Since 2009 he is a full professor of wireless communications and a director of the Institute of Electrical- and Information Engineering at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany. His research interests are antenna integration and EM modeling for mobile communications and biomedical applications.

Since 2005 he is a member of the board of the ESoA – European School of Antennas. Since 2011 he is the chairman of the EurAAP working group on Small Antennas and serves as a director of the EurAAP since 2012. Since 2013 he is a member of the IEEE AP-S AdCom for the term 2013-2015 and since 2014 he serves as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

Prof. Manteuffel is inventor of 6 national and international patents and author and co‑author of more than 90 scientific publications including two books.