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Design of Compact Series-fed Dipole Pair Antenna with End-loaded Rectangular Patches

사각형 패치가 종단에 장하된 소형 직렬 급전 다이폴 쌍 안테나 설계

  • Yeo, Junho (School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Daegu University) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Ig (Department of Electronics Engineering, Dongseo University) ;
  • Park, Jin-Taek (Department of Mobile Communication Engineering, Changshin University)
  • Received : 2013.05.28
  • Accepted : 2013.07.10
  • Published : 2013.10.31
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Abstract

In this paper, a design of a compact series-fed dipole pair(SDP) antenna with end-loaded rectangular patches is presented. In order to reduce the lateral size of a conventional SDP antenna, rectangular patches are end-loaded to the two dipole elements of the SDP antenna and a grooved ground plane is used by adding a patch at both ends of the ground plane. The effects of varying the length and width of the rectangular patches on the antenna performance such as input reflection coefficient are investigated. An optimized compact SDP antenna covering a frequency band ranging from 1.7 GHz to 2.7 GHz is designed and fabricated on an FR4 substrate. The total width of the fabricated prototype of the proposed antenna is reduced by approximately 14.3% compared to the conventional SDP antenna. Experimental results show that the antenna presents a 48.7% bandwidth in the range of 1.68-2.76 GHz and a stable gain of 5.6-6.0 dBi with minimal degradation. Moreover, a front-to-back ratio is improved by about 0.7 to 7.4 dB.

본 논문에서는 사각형 패치가 종단에 장하된 소형 직렬 급전 다이폴 쌍(series-fed dipole pair; SDP) 안테나를 제안하였다. SDP 안테나의 폭을 줄이기 위해 두 다이폴 소자의 두 팔의 종단과 접지면의 양끝에 사각형 패치가 추가되었다. 사각형 패치의 길이와 폭에 따른 입력 반사계수와 같은 안테나 성능의 변화를 분석하였다. 1.7-2.7 GHz 대역에서 동작하는 최적화된 소형 SDP 안테나를 설계하여 FR4 기판 상에 제작하였다. 제작된 안테나의 폭은 기존의 SDP 안테나와 비교하여 14.3% 줄었다. 제작된 SDP 안테나를 측정한 결과, VSWR이 2 이하인 임피던스 대역폭은 48.7%(1.68-2.76 GHz), 이득은 5.6-6.0 dBi으로 기존 SDP 안테나와 유사하며 전후방비는 0.7-7.4 dB 향상되었다.

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