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A Conformal Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna With Wide H-Plane and Band-Notch Radiation Characteristics for Sub-6-GHz 5G Base-Station
- Source :
- IEEE Access, Vol 7, Pp 17469-17479 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- IEEE, 2019.
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Abstract
- This contribution presents a novel 3-D circular conformal MIMO antenna system composed of three magneto-electric dipoles (MED) antennas. The single MED element was delicately designed to include one main (lower-band) dipole and two auxiliaries (upper-band) dipoles in order to achieve the dual-band radiation. The proposed MED owns a low-profile conformal geometry but features a wide H-plane beamwidth (minimum 103°). By embedding the metamaterial of the broadside-coupled E-shaped unit cells into the magnetic dipole, the height of MED can be dramatically reduced by 37.2% as compared with the conventional ones. Meanwhile, the two U-shaped notches together with a rectangular notch were included onto the E-dipole to create a band-notch, which offers the anti-interference capability to the ubiquitous 2.4-GHz signal of the wireless local area network. According to the measurement results, the MED element exhibits an impedance bandwidth of 54.2% (1.68-2.93 GHz) with a stable gain of 6.05± 1.15 dBi in the lower band and 9.2% (3.32-3.64 GHz) with 5.71 ± 0.7 dBi in the upper band, respectively. Moreover, the three-element MIMO system provides quasi-omnidirectional coverage in the H-plane from 1.68 to 3.64 GHz. The outstanding performance metrics validate the proposed ME dipole antenna that is well suited for the future sub-6-GHz fifth-generation MIMO mobile base stations.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21693536
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- IEEE Access
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.9e7a000a90044b9ba59f1d980d9c1a33
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2896356