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Chu–Harrington limit
Lower bound on the quality factor of small radio antennae
In electrical engineering and telecommunications the Chu–Harrington limit or Chu limit sets a lower limit on the Q factor for a small radio antenna.[1] The theorem was developed in several papers between 1948 and 1960 by Lan Jen Chu,[2]Harold Wheeler,[3] and later by Roger F. Harrington.[4] The definition of a small antenna is one that can fit inside a sphere whose diameter is (radius ) – a little smaller than 1⁄3 wavelength in its widest dimension. For a small antenna the Q is proportional to the reciprocal of the volume of a sphere that encloses it. In practice this means that there is a limit to the bandwidth of data that can be sent to and received from small antennas such as are used in mobile phones.
More specifically, Chu established the limit on Q for a lossless antenna as for a linear polarized antenna, where is the radius of the smallest sphere containing the antenna and its current distribution and is the wavenumber. A circular polarized antenna can be half the size[5] (an extension of the theory of Chu by Harrington).[6]
As antennas are made smaller, the bandwidth shrinks and radiation resistance become