Design and Simulation of Half Wave-dipole Antenna for LTE Applications Using CST microwave Studio

Abstract

One of the most important and widely used Radio frequency (RF) antennas is the dipole antenna. This is commonly used on its own and is also integrated into many other prototypes of the RF antenna, where it is the guiding factor for the antenna. An effort has been made in this project to study the latest half wave dipole antenna for LTE Applications. The dipole antenna, which is nearly one-half wavelength long, is known as the half-wave dipole antenna. The antenna was designed for resonating at the frequency of 2.6 GHz. For the simulation and design calculations CST is used. In this project various factors of antenna such as the return loss, standing wave ratio from Smith charts, Real power Vs Frequency, VSWR, E-field and H-field distribution, gain and radiation pattern are also evaluated.