A novel internal antenna has been developed for indoor reception of UHF terrestrial digital TV broadcasting. The overall size of\r\nsome configurations of the new antenna is less than 2 cm3, and its weight is less than 1 gm. It is made of a flexible material that can\r\nbe bent or folded and shaped in any form. It is an unbalanced resonant antenna that does not need a matching circuit. The new\r\nantenna can be fully embedded inside TV sets or portable computers. It has a bandwidth of about 68%. Thus, it can also cover the\r\nbands of GSM and CDMA, which is advantageous in case of portable computers. The new antenna is linearly polarized. It can be\r\neasily modified to be dual polarized by combining two orthogonal antennas with one or two feed points. The overall efficiency of\r\nsome configurations of the new indoor digital TV receiving antenna is more than 80%, and its peak gain is about 2 dBi over the\r\nwhole UHF band. The peak gain can be increased to more than 5 dBi by adding EBG (electromagnetic bandgap) structures. The\r\nEBG structure also increases the efficiency to around 90%.
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