Addressing the LTE Bandwidth Challenge on Small Mobile Terminals: One World, One Radio

This talk concerns frequency-reconfigurable antennas with the aim of addressing the challenge of band proliferation for small mobile terminals. This challenge arose with the worldwide standardization of Long Term Evolution (LTE). Designing a worldwide LTE phone (i.e. a world-phone) with conventional techniques reaches the limit of component integration, given the very tight platforms of typical smart-phones. A shift in architecture is required in order to cover the bandwidth needed for worldwide LTE roaming.