Novel Cross-Type Network for Wide-Tuning-Range Reconfigurable Multiband Antennas

Table 1

Performance of the tunable dual-band antenna with fixed 1.8 GHz, variable  pF,  pF,  nH,  nH,  pF, and  nH.

(volts)	0	1	2	5	8	10	15	23
Frequency (GHz)	2.89	2.96	3.02	3.22	3.39	3.48	3.63	3.75
Return loss (dB)	−24.1	−24.3	−23.1	−24.7	−28.9	−32.6	−32.8	−31.2
Gain (dB)	−1.12	−1.15	−1.09	−1.26	−1.5	−1.64	−1.63	−1.78
BW (MHz)	144	156	156	168	156	156	132	120