On the Design of Planar Printed Dipole Array Antennas

Jean-Marie Floc’h, Ahmad El Sayed Ahmad, Anne Claude Tarot, Renaud Loison, Sophia Thizon, JeanYves Daden

Institut d’Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes (IETR); Unité Mixte de Recherche 6164 (UMR), Rennes, France.
Thales Communication, Colombes, France.

DOI: 10.4236/wet.2012.34029                

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new design procedure for printed dipole array antennas. Applications of these arrays are devoted to wireless communication systems, mainly base stations and beam steerable antennas. All the designs have been developed at the frequency of 3 GHz. This structure is chosen in order to enhance the gain and minimize the backside radiations of an antenna array with a very simple feeding.

Keywords

Printed Antenna Array; Quasi Yagi Antennas; Gain and Backside Radiation Enhancement; Simple Microstripfeeding

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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