New antennas mean signal boost for mobile phones

A BBC News report highlights work being done to create antennas which can work in three 'planes' with a claimed gain of 33% gain in efficiency.

The BBC report says:

Engineers at Isis, a technology transfer spin-out company of the University of Oxford, have found a way of creating antennas which can work in three "planes" but that are small enough to fit in hand-held devices.

Existing antennas for consumer electronics only track a signal as it moves from side to side between its origin and the receiving unit, but the Isis antennas will allow for up and down signal motion to be detected as well.

"There is a requirement - and demand - to make these antennas compact enough to allow you to basically emit and transmit in three dimensions," Rakesh Roshan, one of the Isis engineers, told BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme.

"Basically you to slap it on the back of a mobile phone, or laptop, and you can gain the critical advantage of saving space and making it more efficient," he added.

Read the full BBC News story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7358719.stm

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