Antenna beamwidth control using parasitic subarrays

Author

Korisch, I.A. ; Rulf, B.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Inc., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

120

Abstract

A new and effective technique of controlling the azimuth pattern of a singly or dually polarized linear antenna array is presented. It is shown that the use of parasitic elements allows us to control the azimuth beamwidth over a wide range. It is noted that this technique could be applied to other linear arrays, using other radiating elements. The analysis of coupling between fed and parasitic elements is specific to the type of element that is used, but the overall approach would still be useful

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; electromagnetic wave polarisation; land mobile radio; linear antenna arrays; microwave antenna arrays; 2.4 GHz; 3.5 GHz; antenna beamwidth control; azimuth pattern; base station antenna; coupling; dually polarized linear antenna array; mobile radio; parasitic elements; parasitic subarrays; singly polarized linear antenna array; Antenna radiation patterns; Azimuth; Base stations; Electromagnetic coupling; Electromagnetic wave polarization; Linear antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Mobile antennas; Phased arrays; Reflector antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communications, 2000 IEEE-APS Conference on

Conference_Location

Waltham, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5894-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APWC.2000.900155

Filename

900155