Street Furniture Antenna Radiation Pattern Control Using AMC Surfaces

The possibility is explored for exploiting the properties of AMC surfaces for controlling the radiation pattern of simple dipole antennas for mobile phone street furniture applications, where the main lobe of radiation is significantly off boresight. Predictions are shown for a halfwave dipole above a square patch AMC, which illustrate the technique operating in the GSM 880-960 MHz frequency band. It will be shown that a profile reduction of 37.4% can be achieved.