A novel wideband circular patch antenna for wireless communication

Author

Bo Wang ; Fushun Zhang ; Tian Li ; Qichang Li ; Jian Ren

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2014

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

545

Lastpage

546

Abstract

An innovative wideband planar antenna is presented for mobile communications. The proposed planar antenna consists of four pairs of arc dipole, a balun for unbalance-balance transformation, and a conductor ground for gain enhancement. The prototypes of antenna is fabricated and measured. The measurement results show that the proposed antenna can achieve a bandwidth of 1.7-2.4 GHz or a relative bandwidth of 34.1% with the return loss greater than 10 dB, which can cover GSM/PCS/UMTS bands. In addition, the proposed antenna has a peak gain of 3.4-4.2 dBi throughout the entire operational bandwith with the radiation efficiency over 81%.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; baluns; broadband antennas; cellular radio; dipole antennas; microstrip antennas; planar antennas; GSM bands; PCS bands; UMTS bands; arc dipole; balun; bandwidth 1.7 GHz to 2.4 GHz; conductor ground; gain enhancement; mobile communications; radiation efficiency; unbalance-balance transformation; wideband circular patch antenna; wideband planar antenna; wireless communication; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Broadband communication; Dipole antennas; Loss measurement; Base station; monopole-like; printed arc dipole; wideband antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISANP.2014.7026767

Filename

7026767