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Dual Pol Magnetoelectric Reference
Dual Pol Magnetoelectric Reference
Dual Pol Magnetoelectric Reference
8, 2009
I. INTRODUCTION
N THE DEVELOPMENT of recent wireless communica-
I tions, the capacity issue is becoming critical due to the ex-
pansion of wireless services and the number of mobile sub-
scribers. Research work has been focused on frequency reuse Fig. 1. Photograph of a dual-polarized magneto-electric dipole antenna with
and polarization diversity by using two orthogonal polarizations ground plane.
[1]. For the past few years, dual-polarized antennas have
been used widely in mobile communications to increase ca-
pacity and reduce the installation costs [2]. Significant advance-
ment in the design of dual-polarized antennas is observed.
However, it is difficult to achieve wide bandwidth, high isola-
tion, and low cross-polarization simultaneously [1]. The patch
antenna is a good choice over other kinds of antennas due to
its low profile, light weight, low costs, and easy fabrication for
dual-polarization implementation [3]. By employing aperture-
coupled feeds, a high-isolation antenna with wide impedance
bandwidth of more than 14% can be obtained [4]. With the use
of L-probe feeds, a patch antenna with impedance bandwidth of
about 24% and isolation over 30 dB can be obtained [1]. How-
ever, it requires two pairs of L-shaped probes to suppress the
coupling for achieving high isolation between two ports, which
increases the complexity of the antenna and costs of fabrication
[3].
A concept of exciting electric dipole and magnetic dipole si-
multaneously to produce equal E- and H-planes radiation pat- Fig. 2. Perspective view of a dual-polarized magneto-electric dipole antenna.
terns was first revealed by Clavin [5]. Since then, several inves-
tigations [6], [7] have been conducted to demonstrate the same
concept of complementary antenna. In 1974, Clavin presented
two parasitic inverted-L wires act like an electric dipole, and the
a simple structure of complementary antenna [8] in which two
rectangular slot acts like a magnetic dipole.
parasitic inverted-L wires are placed beside a slot antenna. The
Recently, a wideband complementary antenna designated as
the magneto-electric dipole was proposed by Luk et al. [9],
Manuscript received October 02, 2008; revised December 11, 2008. First pub- [10]. The antenna comprises a vertically oriented quarter-wave
lished December 31, 2008; current version published April 17, 2009. This work shorted patch and a planar dipole, which are equivalent to a com-
was supported in part by a grant from the Research Grant Commerce of the
Hong Kong Special Administration Region, China [Project No. CityU 119008]. bination of a magnetic dipole and electric dipole. Good elec-
The authors are with the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Depart- trical characteristics, such as low back radiation, stable antenna
ment of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, across the operating band, and symmetric E- and H-plane radia-
Hong Kong (e-mail: 50538940@student.cityu.edu.hk).
Color versions of one or more of the figures in this letter are available online tion patterns, were demonstrated. In this letter, a dual-polarized
at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. magneto-electric dipole antenna excited by two -shaped strips
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LAWP.2008.2011656 is presented.
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TABLE II
SUMMARY OF THE MEASURED IMPEDANCE BANDWIDTH OF DUAL-POLARIZED
MAGNETO-ELECTRIC ANTENNA
TABLE I
DIMENSIONS OF PROPOSED ANTENNA
the ground plane is connected to the end of the linear tapered frequency band, the isolation between two input ports is more
line. To enhance the isolation between the two ports, the two or- than 36 dB, which satisfies the design requirement for a com-
thogonal -shaped strip feeds are designated to have different mercial base station antenna. When the size of ground plane is
heights to reduce the coupling effect. reduced, the impedance and broadside radiation pattern do not
change significantly.