Title :
Compact printed dual-band dipole with wideband integrated balun
Author :
Zhang, Q.-Y. ; Chu, Qing-Xin ; Wang, Yannan
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China
Abstract :
A novel compact printed dual-band dipole with an integrated wideband balun is presented. The proposed antenna consists of two radiating microstrip branches and a slot balun etched in the ground plane. With the integrated balun, the proposed antenna yields an impedance bandwidth of 2.38-2.65 and 4.95-6.35 GHz with return loss less than - 10 dB, while retaining a compact size of 30 times 25 times 0.8 mm3. The antenna has general good omnidirectional radiation patterns in its H-plane and attains considerable gain characteristics across its dual bands. Measured and simulated results are demonstrated to verify the proposed design.
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; baluns; dipole antennas; microstrip antennas; multifrequency antennas; frequency 2.38 GHz to 2.65 GHz; frequency 4.95 GHz to 6.35 GHz; microstrip branch; omnidirectional radiation pattern; printed dual band dipole; size 0.8 mm; size 25 mm; size 30 mm; slot balun; wideband integrated balun;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2009.1280
