A Planar Wideband Dual-Polarized Array for Active Antenna System

Author

Xiaolei Jiang ; Zhijun Zhang ; Yue Li ; Zhenghe Feng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

13

fYear

2014

fDate

2014

Firstpage

544

Lastpage

547

Abstract

A ±45^° polarized wideband slot array antenna is proposed for active antenna system (AAS). The proposed array has a planar structure that integrates all the elements on a single substrate. Metal columns are used to reduce the coupling between adjacent elements. A prototype of a 2 × 2 array antenna is fabricated and measured. The measured results show that the proposed array covers the bands LTE2300 (2300-2400 MHz) and LTE2500 (2500-2690 MHz), and the polarization isolation is higher than 30 dB while the coupling between elements is less than -22 dB.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; active antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; planar antenna arrays; polarisation; slot antenna arrays; 2 × 2 array antenna; AAS; LTE2300; LTE2500; Metal columns; active antenna system; frequency 2300 MHz to 2690 MHz; planar wideband dual-polarized array; polarization isolation; polarized wideband slot array antenna; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Couplings; Metals; Ports (Computers); Active antenna system (AAS); array antenna; dual polarization; slot antenna; wideband;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2014.2311583

Filename

6766180