Design of High Gain Planar Dipole Array Antenna for WLAN Application

This paper presents a new design of planar dipole array antenna (PDAA). Radiated patches are etched on the metallic layer of a double-sided printed circuit board (FR4) to form the PDAA. The two symmetric flags with trapezoid patch are designed on both side of the print circuit board to form the basic dipole element. IE3D software is used to design PDAA. Better parameters are selected to manufacture the proposed array antenna. The fabricated 4×8-element planar dipole array antenna can be operated at 5.2/5.8 GHz successfully. With suitable size parameters of the dipole element, PDAA is fabricated. From the measured results, the wide bandwidth about 1.97GHz is obtained. The peak gain of the fabricated PDAA with reflector is 15.55dBi at 5.2GHz and 17.53dBi at 5.8GHz. This high gain planar dipole array antenna can be used in WLAN frequency band.