Printed collinear dipole array antenna with a horizontally omnidirectional pattern for dual‐band WLAN

Abstract

AbstractA dual‐band printed dipole array antenna for a wireless local area network (WLAN) application is presented. A radiation element consists of four pairs of printed dipoles, and two radiation elements are collinearly arrayed. A broadside coupling microstrip line‐based two‐sectional impedance transformer is used to feed the radiation elements in parallel. The proposed dual‐band antenna is designed to cover the dual‐frequency bands (2.4–2.48 and 5.15–5.825 GHz) which are the lower‐ and upper‐frequency bands for WLAN operation. The experimental results support the proposed design theory and also exhibit the gain values of 3.89–4.88 and 5.79–7.18 dBi at the lower‐ and upper‐bands, respectively, maintaining the omnidirectional radiation pattern. The measured radiation efficiencies at each frequency points, 2.4, 5.2, and 5.5 GHz are 87.39%, 75.43%, 69.96%, and 73.07, respectively. In addition, for mass production, the effect from a low‐cost flexible coaxial cable, and polyethylene housing on the antenna performance is also investigated in this letter.