Title :
A novel broadband AMC surface for lowering the height of planar antennas
Author :
Fuyun Li;Yuehui Cui;RongLin Li
Author_Institution :
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A novel broadband artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) surface is proposed for lowering the height of planar antennas. By replacing the conventional perfect electric conductor (PEC) ground plane with the AMC surface, the height of planar antenna can be significantly reduced. Three planar antennas for LTE700/GSM900 base stations are investigated. The antenna height is lowered from 0.263λ0.83GHz to 0.083λ0.83GHz, (where λ0.83GHz is the wavelength in free space at the frequency 0.83 GHz). The height-lowered planar antennas maintain a wide bandwidth of, e.g., 38% for a linearly polarized antenna, 35% for a dual-polarized antenna, and 46% for a circularly polarized antenna. All these planar antennas above the AMC surface have a gain of higher than 7 dBi.
Keywords :
"Broadband antennas","Planar arrays","Antenna measurements","Bandwidth","Broadband communication","Frequency measurement"
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2015.7304943