Sensors (May 2021)

Compact Bandwidth Enhanced Cavity-Backed Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna with Outer Γ-Shaped Probe for GNSS Bands

  • Alexandre Causse,
  • Kevin Rodriguez,
  • Loïc Bernard,
  • Ala Sharaiha,
  • Sylvain Collardey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/s21113599
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 11
p. 3599

Abstract

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In this paper, a wideband small cavity-backed magneto-electric (ME) antenna is proposed. This antenna is linearly polarized and designed to cover all the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) bands. It exhibits small external dimensions of 90 × 90 × 40 mm3 (0.34 × 0.34 × 0.15 λ3 at lowest frequency) and achieves a wide impedance bandwidth of 40.5% (from 1.14 to 1.72 GHz) due to the excitation of a third resonance of the ME structure. It also provides a regular broadside gain of 5.2 dBi and stable radiation pattern in both E and H planes of the antenna.

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