The miniaturization and electrical performance improvement of base station array antenna with artificial magnetic conductor

Author

Ahn, Jihwan ; Son, Cheolhong ; Chang, Kihun ; Yoon, Youngjoong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

1-5 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a base station array antenna with AMC in PCS frequency band is proposed. Due to the 0deg reflection phase on AMC, the thickness (43.2 mm) of the base station array antenna can be reduced into 10.3 mm without the destructive interaction of forward/backward waves. In addition, due to the surface wave suppression by the high surface impedance on AMC, the FBR (24.8 dB) of the base station array antenna is improved into 35.9 dB. Therefore, it is demonstrated that the base station array antenna can be made as low profile and the electrical performance is highly improved by AMC.

Keywords

antenna arrays; PCS frequency band; artificial magnetic conductor; base station array antenna; electrical performance improvement; size 10.3 mm; size 43.2 mm; surface wave suppression; Antenna arrays; Base stations; Conductors; Frequency; Personal communication networks; Phased arrays; Reflection; Reflector antennas; Surface impedance; Surface waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2009. APSURSI '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Charleston, SC

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3647-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2009.5171629

Filename

5171629