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A low‐cost microstrip‐line‐fed shorted‐patch antenna for a PCS base station
Author(s) -
Kuo JiehSen,
Wong KinLu
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.1111
Subject(s) - microstrip antenna , patch antenna , microstrip , electrical engineering , feed line , antenna (radio) , engineering , electronic engineering , acoustics , physics
A low‐cost microstrip‐line‐fed shorted‐patch antenna suitable for applications in a PCS (1710–1880 MHz band) base station is presented. Both the shorted patch and the 50 Ω microstrip feed line have an air substrate, and the material cost is thus reduced to be minimum. And by using a pair of shorting plates of proper widths for shorting the radiating patch to the antenna's ground, the proposed antenna can be directly fed by the 50 Ω microstrip feed line, which greatly simplifies the antenna's impedance‐matching design. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 29: 146–148, 2001.