A novel leaky wave antenna for the base station in an innovative indoors cellular mobile communication system

Author

Lam, K.W. ; Yung, E.K.N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

11-16 July 1999

Firstpage

2444

Abstract

The 8-slot novel leaky wave antenna showing a (34/spl deg//spl times/31/spl deg/) beamwidth at 2400 MHz has been designed and studied experimentally. The radiation patterns of the antenna are similar to that of a travelling wave antenna (Krauss 1988) which agree well with expected results and the directivity is equal to 16 dB. A front-to-back ratio of about 1O dB is realized, showing that the antenna is radiating effectively. The main characteristics of the antenna are low fabrication cost, low profile and it can be mass-produced.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; cellular radio; indoor radio; leaky wave antennas; microstrip antenna arrays; slot antenna arrays; 2400 MHz; 8-slot leaky wave antenna; base station; beamwidth; directivity; fabrication cost; front-to-back ratio; indoors cellular mobile communication system; profile; radiation patterns; Antenna measurements; Base stations; Dielectric constant; Etching; Leaky wave antennas; Microstrip antennas; Mobile communication; Multimedia communication; Power transmission lines; Printed circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1999. IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5639-x

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.1999.789304

Filename

789304