An Omnidirectional Microstrip Antenna for WiMAX Applications

Jiu‐sheng Li

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters · 2011 · 26 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

An omnidirectional broad-bandwidth microstrip array antenna is proposed, fabricated, and tested. The operating bandwidth of the antenna with usable broadside radiation patterns is about 1910 MHz (2.75-4.66 GHz), which is quite suitable for the application of the WiMAX 3.5-GHz system. The overall dimension of the antenna comes around 550 × 10 × 0.85 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sup> . This antenna has the advantages of simple configuration, low profile, compactness, and low fabrication cost. Microwave experiments and numerical simulations are performed to demonstrate its functionalities.

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