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Wideband fan-beam low-sidelobe array antenna using grounded reflector for DECT, 3G, and ultra-wideband wireless applications

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posted on 2016-07-26, 08:30 authored by Abolfazl Falahati, Mahdi Naghshvarian-Jahromi, Robert EdwardsRobert Edwards
low-sidelobe fan-beam wideband linear array antenna employing a nonparasitic grounded reflector is presented. This fan-beam antenna is achieved using a six-element conventional planar monopole array antenna and feed network, which together produce sidelobes at 26 dB. Dolph–Tschebyscheff distribution is employed, and a broadband array feed network is designed to satisfy beneficial input impedance bandwidth requirements in the frequency range 1.7–2.2 GHz. Therefore, this array covers applications of GSM-DCS2, DECT, and 3G. Combining planar monopole antenna as an array with nonparasitic grounded reflector allows an advantageous fan beam pattern to be generated. H-plane 3-dB beamwidths are controllable using grounded reflector height. In addition, the results are compared with and without reflector array antenna.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION

Volume

61

Issue

2

Pages

700 - 706 (7)

Citation

FALAHATI, A., NAGHSHVARIAN-JAHROMI, M. and EDWARDS, R., 2013. Wideband fan-beam low-sidelobe array antenna using grounded reflector for DECT, 3G, and ultra-wideband wireless applications. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61 (2), pp.700-706.

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© IEEE

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2013

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ISSN

0018-926X

Language

  • en