An 8 element broadband antenna for AMPS+GSM applications

Author

Perikos, G. ; Rigelsford, J.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

12-16 April 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This paper presents an 8 element broadband antenna suitable for AMPS and GSM900 cellular BTS applications. The proposed antenna model consists of an array of two layer aperture coupled patches which are capacitively fed with a metallic microstrip feed. The design is suitable for applications requiring beam steering and results are presented for various elevational tilt angles. Furthermore, the proposed antenna has the advantages of ease of manufacture, low production costs, and is easy to recycle at the end of its useful life.

Keywords

antenna feeds; aperture antennas; beam steering; broadband antennas; cellular radio; microstrip antenna arrays; 8 element broadband antenna; AMPS; BTS application; GSM application; antenna model; beam steering; metallic microstrip feed; tilt angles; two layer aperture coupled patches; Antenna feeds; Aperture antennas; Aperture coupled antennas; Beam steering; Broadband antennas; Costs; Manufacturing; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Production;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2010 Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6431-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-84-7653-472-4

Type

conf

Filename

5505462