A novel low-profile high-gain antenna based on artificial magnetic conductor for LTE applications

Author

Fen-Hua Yang ; Wei Tang

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Huaqiao Univ. Xiamen, Xiamen, China

fYear

2012

fDate

22-26 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

171

Lastpage

174

Abstract

This paper presents a novel low-profile and high-gain antenna which adopts an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) ground plane as its reflecting surface. Here, the traditional printed dipole antenna is oriented horizontally over the AMC surface which is consisted of 5*7 square plum-shaped patches unit without vertical via to the ground. The optimized antenna has a height about 9.5mm and its peak gain is closed to 9.7dB at 2.58GHz. Moreover, the operating frequency range is from 2.47GHz to 2.77GHz, its relative bandwidth achieves about 11.63%.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; UHF antennas; conductors (electric); dipole antennas; microstrip antennas; mobile antennas; AMC ground plane; LTE applications; artificial magnetic conductor; frequency 2.47 GHz to 2.77 GHz; low-profile high-gain antenna; plum-shaped patches unit; printed dipole antenna; reflecting surface; Antenna arrays; Bandwidth; Conductors; Dipole antennas; Reflection; Reflector antennas; Artificial magnetic conductor (AMC); low-profile antenna; plum-shaped;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation & EM Theory (ISAPE), 2012 10th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Xian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1799-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2012.6408736

Filename

6408736