Novel offset‐fed dual‐band aperture‐dipole composite antenna: Operating principle and design approach |
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Authors: | Jin Xu Wen‐Jun Lu Xi‐Tong Wu Ya‐Ming Bo Lei Zhu Hong‐Bo Zhu |
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Affiliation: | 1. Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunication, College of Communications and Information Engineering, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Wireless Communications, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China;2. State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210096, China;3. University of Macau, Faculty of Science and Technology, Macau SAR, China |
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Abstract: | Operating principle and design approach of a novel dual‐band aperture‐dipole composite antenna are proposed. It is shown that multiple operating modes can be simultaneously excited by employing offset‐feeding technique at first. After the behavior of each mode is studied, the operating principle of the antenna is analyzed and described. Then, an improved dual‐band aperture‐dipole composite antenna is formed and it is designed by using the proposed approach. The antenna is experimentally verified. It is demonstrated that two operating bands for radiation are ranged from 2.36 to 2.58 GHz and from 4.1 to 15.72 GHz, respectively, in which the reflection coefficient are both 10 dB. The averaging gain of the antenna is about 4.5 dBi with good flatness across both bands. The proposed antenna is useful for promising dual‐band wireless/mobile systems. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:382–393, 2015. |
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Keywords: | dual‐band antenna aperture‐dipole composite antenna offset‐feeding technique |
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