Title :
Design of broad-band and dual-band antennas comprised of series-fed printed-strip dipole pairs
Author :
Tefiku, Faton ; Grimes, Craig A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Kentucky Univ., Lexington, KY, USA
fDate :
6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The design of antennas consisting of two strip dipoles the arms of which are printed on opposite sides of an electrically thin dielectric substrate and connected through a parallel stripline is presented. The antennas are designed to have broad-band or dual-band capability suitable for application in base stations of wireless communication systems. An important advantage of these antennas is their simple structure, allowing them to be readily manufactured as printed circuits. Broad-band antennas with bandwidths greater than 30% for VSWR ⩽1.5 operating near 2.0 GHz and dual-frequency antennas operating at 0.9 GHz/1.5 GHz and 0.9 GHz/1.8 GHz bands are presented
Keywords :
UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; dipole antenna arrays; land mobile radio; microstrip antenna arrays; multifrequency antennas; 0.9 GHz; 1.5 GHz; 1.8 GHz; 2.0 GHz; base stations; broad-band antennas; dual-band antennas; dual-frequency antennas; electrically thin dielectric substrate; parallel stripline; series-fed printed-strip dipole pairs; wireless communication systems; Arm; Bandwidth; Base stations; Dielectric substrates; Dipole antennas; Dual band; Manufacturing; Printed circuits; Stripline; Wireless communication;
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
