Design of broadband dual-band dipole for base station antenna

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Author(s)

  • Wen Xing An
  • Hang Wong
  • Ka Leung Lau
  • Shu Fang Li
  • Quan Xue

Detail(s)

Original languageEnglish
Article number6107522
Pages (from-to)1592-1595
Journal / PublicationIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume60
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2012

Abstract

A novel dual-band unidirectional antenna composed of an irregular shorted patch and planar dipole elements is presented and studied. This proposed antenna employs an L-shaped feeding strip for exciting dual-band operations. For the lower frequency band, a V-slot is loaded on the planar dipole for acting as a capacitive loading for having wide impedance matching of the antenna. Then, two additional smaller planar dipoles are placed and connected to the irregular short patch for achieving another wideband performance at the higher frequency band. The proposed antenna has wide dual-band impedance bandwidths of 34% and 49.5% in the lower and the upper bands, ranged from 0.78 GHz to 1.1 GHz and from 1.58 GHz to 2.62 GHz, respectively. More importantly, the antenna has stable gains of 7 dBi and 8 dBi across each band, demonstrating the high stability of the radiation characteristic for the two radiation modes. The radiation patterns are symmetric, low back-lobe radiation and low cross-polarization. Analysis and parametric studies of the proposed antenna are provided. © 2006 IEEE.

Research Area(s)

  • Base station antenna, dipole, dual-band, L-probe, magneto electric dipole, shorted patch, V-slot, wideband

Citation Format(s)

Design of broadband dual-band dipole for base station antenna. / An, Wen Xing; Wong, Hang; Lau, Ka Leung et al.
In: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 60, No. 3, 6107522, 03.2012, p. 1592-1595.

Research output: Journal Publications and ReviewsRGC 21 - Publication in refereed journalpeer-review