A wide-band monopolar wire-patch antenna for indoor base station applications

Author

Lau, K.L. ; Luk, K.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, China

Volume

4

fYear

2005

fDate

6/27/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

157

Abstract

This paper presents the design and testing of a wide-band monopolar wire-patch antenna. The proposed antenna consists of a circular patch that is shorted to the ground plane by four copper wires and is fed by an L-probe at its center. For the patch height and patch radius of 0.092 and 0.179 free space wavelengths at 0.893 GHz, this antenna possesses a 14-dB return loss bandwidth of 27.1%, which is 9 times wider than that of similar type of antenna reported in the literature. Also, it has an average gain of 2.6 dBi and monopole-like radiation patterns over this bandwidth. As this antenna has wide impedance bandwidth and relatively small size, it is very suitable for the indoor mobile communication systems.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; indoor radio; microstrip antennas; mobile radio; monopole antennas; wire antennas; 0.893 GHz; 14 dB; 2.6 dB; L-probe feed; circular patch; copper wires; free space wavelengths; ground plane; indoor base station applications; indoor mobile communication systems; monopole-like radiation patterns; wide-band monopolar wire-patch antenna; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Base stations; Broadband antennas; Copper; Impedance; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Testing; Wires; Monopolar; wire-patch antenna;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2005.847432

Filename

1427662