A Dual-Band High-Gain Base-Station Antenna for WLAN and WiMAX Applications

Author

Huiqing Zhai ; Qiqiang Gao ; Changhong Liang ; Rongdao Yu ; Sheng Liu

Author_Institution

Nat. Lab. of Sci. & Technol. on Antennas & Microwaves, Xidian Univ., Xi´an, China

Volume

13

fYear

2014

fDate

2014

Firstpage

876

Lastpage

879

Abstract

A dual-band base-station antenna with high gain is proposed in this letter. The antenna consists of a pair of planar patches and vertical shorted patches. Each of the two planar patches is composed of three U-shaped slots that differ in size. The bigger U-shaped slots that are connected to vertical patches operate at high frequency (3.5 GHz), and the smaller ones work at low frequency (2.4 GHz), which can be applied to wireless local area network (WLAN) and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) operations. This antenna also exhibits high gains of near 8.0 and 11.0 dBi at the low and high working frequencies, respectively. Good cross-polarization performance is also verified by measured results. It is also demonstrated that the two working bands can be flexibly controlled by suitable changes of corresponding parameters of U-shaped arms.

Keywords

UHF antennas; WiMax; microstrip antennas; multifrequency antennas; slot antennas; wireless LAN; U-shaped arms; U-shaped slots; WLAN; WiMAX; cross-polarization performance; dual-band high-gain base-station antenna; frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency 3.5 GHz; planar patches; vertical shorted patches; wireless local area network; worldwide interoperability for microwave access; Antenna measurements; Base stations; Dielectric resonator antennas; Dual band; Frequency measurement; WiMAX; Dual-band base-station antenna; Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX); high gain; wireless local area network (WLAN);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2014.2321503

Filename

6809848