Design and Implementation of a Compact 6-Port Antenna

Author

Chiu, Chi-Yuk ; Yan, Jie-Bang ; Murch, Ross D. ; Yun, Jane Xing ; Vaughan, Rodney G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China

Volume

8

fYear

2009

fDate

7/1/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

767

Lastpage

770

Abstract

A pair of half-wavelength slot and narrow patch antennas stacked closely together to form a set of nearly colocated antennas for achieving polarization diversity is described. A reduced-size version is then proposed by utilizing a quarter-wavelength slot and planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) pair, respectively. When three sets of these antennas are placed on each orthogonal axis, a compact 6-port antenna is constructed. Key characteristics of the antennas are found through electromagnetic simulation and physical measurements.

Keywords

diversity reception; electromagnetic wave polarisation; microstrip antenna arrays; planar antenna arrays; planar inverted-F antennas; slot antenna arrays; PIFA; colocated antennas; compact 6-port antenna; electromagnetic simulation; half-wavelength slot antennas; narrow patch antennas; orthogonal axis; physical measurement; planar inverted-F antenna; polarization diversity; quarter-wavelength slot antenna; Planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA); polarization diversity; slot antenna;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2009.2026663

Filename

5159465