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A wideband patch antenna with a pair of antisymmetric balun as differentially fed network
Author(s) -
Zhang Jianqiang,
Lan Haokun,
Liu Maliang,
Yang Yintang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of rf and microwave computer‐aided engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1099-047X
pISSN - 1096-4290
DOI - 10.1002/mmce.21618
Subject(s) - balun , ground plane , wideband , patch antenna , microstrip antenna , antisymmetric relation , radiation pattern , physics , acoustics , antenna measurement , antenna (radio) , antenna feed , optics , coaxial antenna , electrical engineering , engineering , mathematical physics
A novel singly differentially‐fed microstrip patch antenna (DFMA) is proposed, which is composed of a radiating patch, a differentially‐fed network with a twin antisymmetric miniaturized baluns and a ground plane for unidirectional radiation. In the differentially‐fed network, the signal is coupled to the two feedlines on both sides by the two miniaturized baluns. The radiating patch is excited by the coupling feed sheet located below the radiating patch, and the coupling feed sheet is connected to the upper end of the feedline. The lower end of the feedlines is connected to the ground plane, and there is a slot on the ground of the feeding network. Due to the existence of coupling feed sheet and slot, a second nonradiating resonant is achieved, and a wideband property is obtained. Finally, the prototype of the antenna is fabricated and studied experimentally. Simulated and measured results show that the impedance bandwidth of the antenna is 30.3% (1.71‐2.32 GHz) for S 11 < −10 dB. Besides, a stable symmetric radiation pattern is obtained with gain around 9.6 dB and cross‐polarization less than −21 dB, which demonstrates the designed antenna has the property of wideband, high gain and low cross polarization.