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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2011.12.11.5214

Bandwidth Improvement of a Series-fed Two Dipole Array Antenna  

Yeo, Jun-Ho (School of Computer and Communication, Daegu University)
Lee, Jong-Ig (Department of Electronics Engineering, Dongseo University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.12, no.11, 2011 , pp. 5214-5218 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, bandwidth improvement of a series-fed two dipole array(STDA) antenna applicable for mobile communication base station antennas is studied. The proposed STDA antenna consists of two strip dipole antennas with different lengths which are connected directly trough a coplanar stripline(CPS). By adjusting the spacing between the two dipoles and the length of the second dipole, the bandwidth of the STDA can be enhanced. In addition, an integrated balun composed of a short-circuited microstrip line and a slot line is utilized to minimize the area required for a feeding part, and a broadband impedance matching is obtained by adjusting the feeding point. Based on the proposed antenna structure, an STDA antenna covering the frequency band ranging from 1.75 GHz to 2.7 GHz, which includes almost all the existing mobile communication frequency bands, with more than 5 dBi gain is designed and fabricated on an FR4 substrate with dielectric constant of 4.4 and thickness of 1.6mm, and experimentally tested. The fabricated antenna shows impedance bandwidth of 49%(1.7-2.8 GHz) for VSWR<2, a gain higher than 5.5 dBi, and a front-back ratio better than 12 dB.
Keywords
Series-fed two dipole array(STDA); Bandwidth improvement; Integrated balun; Mobile communication; Base station antenna;
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