A wideband magneto-electric dipole antenna with improved feeding structure

Abstract

An improved feeding structure in magneto-electric dipole antenna is proposed and analyzed, which is simpler in design and costruction and better in performance than previous designs, involving differential feeding. Due to this improved feeding structure, the antenna has achieved an impedance bandwidth of 133.3% (0.5 GHz − 2.5 GHz, resulting into an ultra-wide band antenna. The maximum broadside gain 6.5dBi with unidirectional radiation pattern has also been reported for the entire the range of operation. Symmetry in E-plane and H-plane radiation patterns has been observed due to the symmetry in structure and excitation of antenna.