{"title":"High-efficiency balanced phase-reversal antennas: Principle, bandwidth enhancement, frequency tuning, and beam scanning","authors":"N. Yang, C. Caloz, K. Wu","doi":"10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552497","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Modern wireless systems require low-profile antennas for high integration and low cost. Moreover, balanced antennas with differential configurations have the advantages of easy integration and low cross-polarization. This talk presents a class of novel printed balanced phase-reversal antennas with small lateral footprint and interesting properties. This type of antenna may be regarded as an evolution of Franklin-type antennas [1]. It consists of a plurality of balanced transmission line sections interconnected by phase reversing crossovers having two functions: small dipole radiators and ideal 180° phase shifters. Due to the balanced configuration of the antenna, only the crossovers radiate, and the antenna is subsequently modeled as a serial array of radiation resistances. A six-element coplanar stripline (CPS) array is demonstrated theoretically and experimentally [2], with measured 9.3 dBi of gain for bidirectional radiation and 12.5 dBi of gain for unidirectional radiation with a back reflector.","PeriodicalId":161657,"journal":{"name":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics & the American Electromagnetics Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ANTEM.2010.5552497","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Modern wireless systems require low-profile antennas for high integration and low cost. Moreover, balanced antennas with differential configurations have the advantages of easy integration and low cross-polarization. This talk presents a class of novel printed balanced phase-reversal antennas with small lateral footprint and interesting properties. This type of antenna may be regarded as an evolution of Franklin-type antennas [1]. It consists of a plurality of balanced transmission line sections interconnected by phase reversing crossovers having two functions: small dipole radiators and ideal 180° phase shifters. Due to the balanced configuration of the antenna, only the crossovers radiate, and the antenna is subsequently modeled as a serial array of radiation resistances. A six-element coplanar stripline (CPS) array is demonstrated theoretically and experimentally [2], with measured 9.3 dBi of gain for bidirectional radiation and 12.5 dBi of gain for unidirectional radiation with a back reflector.