A Compact Wideband Dual-Polarized Printed Antenna with Coaxial Feeds for TD-SCDMA Application

Yujie Liu, Wei Tang, Yuehe Ge, Guogang Li

College of Information Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China.

DOI: 10.4236/wet.2015.61001                

Abstract

In this article, a low-profile wideband dual-polarized planar printed dipole antenna, fed by coaxial lines, is investigated for the TD-SCDMA operation. The antenna is composed of two printed dipoles, two pairs of feeding coaxial lines and a ground. The single-polarized planar printed rectangular dipole and petal dipole, with the similar configuration, are first studied, exhibiting the potential wideband operation. Two petal dipoles are then cross-arranged to design a dual-polarized planar printed antenna, giving a lower profile and a better bandwidth covering the Chinese TD-SCDMA band (1880-2400 MHz). The dual-polarized antenna is simply excited by two pairs of coaxial feeds. Simulated and measured results show that the antenna achieves a common impedance bandwidth of 42% at both ports, good isolation of more than 25 dB, stable radiation patterns and the gain of about 7 dBi over the operating bandwidth.

Keywords

Base Station Antenna, Dual Polarization, Petal Type Antenna, TD-SCDMA, Printed Dipole

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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