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A Wideband Dual-polarized Antenna for

LTE700/GSM850/GSM900 Applications
Rui Wu, and Qing-Xin Chu, Senior Member, IEEE

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Abstract—A novel resonator-loaded wideband dual-polarized advantages of wide impedance bandwidth, stable radiation
antenna is proposed for LTE700/GSM850/GSM900 applications. patterns, enhanced gain and high isolation over the whole
Four single-polarized miniaturized antenna elements are placed operating band, which is desirable for LTE700/GSM850
with square arrangement upon the reflector for dual-polarization.
/GSM900 base station applications.
One pair of parallel element is for +45°polarization and the other
pair for -45° polarization. The impedance bandwidth is greatly
improved loaded with resonator. Experimentally, the antenna
exhibits a wide impedance bandwidth of 37.5% ranges from 0.67
to 0.98GHz for |S11|<-15dB, high isolation of more than 40dB,
stable gain of around 9.5dBi over the whole operating band.

Index Terms—wideband antenna, dual-polarized antenna,

isolation, LTE700/GSM850/GSM900.

I. INTRODUCTION

W ITH the rapid development of wireless

communication systems, the channel capacity is
becoming more and more important for the increasing number
of mobile devices and subscribers. Moreover, included with
LTE700 MHz, the working bandwidth has been extended to the
range from 698 MHz to 960MHz [1][2]. Furthermore, in the
modern complicated circumstance, performances of isolation, (a)
gain, radiation patterns and half-power beam width (HPBW)
are very important issues for dual-polarized antenna in base
station applications. Recently, a number of work has been
focused on polarization diversity by using ±45°
dual-polarization [3]-[11]. However, their bandwidth is not
wide enough to cover LTE700MHz. In [12], the antenna is
designed to cover 698-960MHz with dual-polarization.
However, the HPBW of 65±6 deg is desirable in the urban
concentrated base station application. Therefore, it is demanded
to design a dual-polarized antenna to satisfy wideband and
stable radiation pattern as well as enhanced isolation.
Recently, a resonator-loaded methodology for bandwidth
enhancement was proposed by us [13]. By loading a resonator
with proper size and position beside the dipole. A new
resonating mode is induced in the desired band. Therefore,
wide impedance bandwidth can be achieved. Based on our
previous work, a novel wideband dual-polarized antenna is
presented in this letter. The proposed antenna shows

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of

China (61671207), the Science and Technology Equipment Mobilization of
Guangdong Province of China ([2015]1303), the Fundamental Research Funds (b)
for the Central Universities (2015ZP043), and the Research and Cooperation
with Major Innovation Projects of Guangzhou City (201604010109).
Authors are with School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South
China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510640, China
(e-mail: qxchu@scut.edu.cn).

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be achieved with resonator. On the other hand, HPBW is a

critical issue in base station application. The key parameter for
stable radiation patterns is dis (dis is the distance between the
same polarization dipoles). It is known to all that the +45°
dipole has an equal peanut-shaped radiation pattern at
H-plane(XOZ) and E-plane(YOZ) plane. As the increase of
frequency, the beamwidth of an in-phase two element array
(c) becomes narrow while the beamwidth of a dipole over a
Fig.1. Antenna configurations (a) top view and side view, (b) U-shaped feed reflector becomes wide. Therefore, a total stable radiation can
line, (c) 3D view and photo of the proposed antenna. be obtained based on radiation pattern product [15]. Moreover,
stable radiation around 65°, which is suitable for base station
application, can be obtained with proper dis and H. As shown in
Fig.4, with the increase of dis, the HPBW for H-plane is
decreased. Stable HPBW of 65°±5° can be achieved when
dis=150mm. The H is designed around 0.25λ. Since we have
separate the arm of Fig.2(b) into three part, the horizontal part,
the inclined part and the vertical part. Three critical parameters
for miniaturized element is Lxv, Lx and gama. The first
resonant mode is decided by the length of the dipole. As
(a) (b)
Fig.2. (a) previous work [13], (b) miniaturized element. depicted in Fig.5 and Fig.6. The current path is lengthened with
the increase of Lxv and Lx, therefore the first resonant mode is
II. ANTENNA DESIGN AND CONFIGURATION moved lower. And the gama contribute to the impedance
matching, details are shown in Fig.7. In this way, compact
A. Antenna configuration wideband dual-polarized antenna with enhanced isolation as
The geometry of the proposed dual-polarized antenna is well as stable radiation patterns can be achieved.
shown in Fig.1. Basically, the antenna consists of a box-shaped
reflector, two pairs of bending dipoles. One pair is dipole 1 and
dipole 3 and the other pair is dipole 2 and dipole 4. Each pair is
fed by a two-way coaxial power divider, which is equal of
phase and magnitude. Fig.2 illustrates the evolution of the
proposed antenna. Different from our previous single polarized
antenna [13], the bended dipole has a miniaturized length of
0.38λ (Ld2, λ is the wavelength at the center frequency of 0.82
GHz), which is reduced by 30% compared with the original
length of Ld1. In this way, more compact dual-polarized
antenna can be achieved, which is of great significance in
multi-array antenna. Furthermore, stable HPBW of 65±4°at
H-plane can be obtained, which is suitable for base station
applications. The antenna was simulated by Ansoft HFSS [14]
Fig.3. The |S11| of resonator-loaded planar dipole antenna with various L1.
and the optimized dimensions of the proposed antenna are
listed in TABLE I.
TABLE I
DIMENSION OF THE PROPOSED ANTENNA
Parameter GD H Lxv L1
Value(mm) 326 90 26 93
Parameter d1 w1 dis td
Value(mm) 3.6 11 150 20
Parameter Ld1 Ld2 gama Lx
Value(mm) 197 140 30 25
B. Mechanisms and parameter study
The parameter studies are illustrated to have a better
understanding as well as basic design guideline for the
proposed antenna. Basic on the resonator-loaded planar dipole,
we can see clearly from Fig.3, a new resonating mode is
induced with resonator [13]. As the increase of L1, the newly
Fig.4. Effects of dis for H-plane HPBW of the proposed antenna.
mode moves lower. Therefore, wide impedance bandwidth can

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Fig.5. Effects of Lxv for the |S11| of the proposed antenna.
Fig.6. Effects of Lx for the |S11| of the proposed antenna.
Fig.7. Effects of gama for the |S11| of the proposed antenna.
C. Design guideline
Based on above analysis and parametric study, a design
guideline is recommended as follows. Assuming that λ is the
wavelength corresponding the desired center frequency.
1) Firstly, setting the dimension of resonator-loaded dipole as
Ld1=0.5λ, L1=0.25λ, dl=0.01λ, w1=0.03λ, H=0.25λ and the
length of reflector GD=λ with proper baffle.
2) Secondly, setting the distance of the same polarization dipole
antenna dis=0.25λ. Insure that the HPBW is around 65°. Then
another polarization is placed perpendicularly. We can find that
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the intersection is appeared by the end of the dipole arm.
3) Then, bending the arm of dipole and avoid the intersection.
We should fold them appropriately to insure the radiation
performance as well as miniaturization. The vertical part Lxv is
set as 0.1λ. The inclined part is for impedance matching,
usually gama=30deg and Lx=0.12λ.
3) Finally, further optimize each parameter and excellent
performance can be achieved over the desire bandwidth.
Fig.8. Photograph of the proposed antenna.
III. SIMULATED AND MEASURED RESULTS
A prototype was fabricated to verify the proposed design
Fig.8. The S-parameters were measured by an Agilent N5230A
vector network analyzer. And the radiation patterns and gain
were carried out by the anechoic chamber. The measured and
simulated S parameters are shown in Fig.9. The measured
return loss is better than 15dB from 0.67GHz to 0.98GHz and
the isolation is more than 40dB. The measured gain is 9.25dBi
with 0.25dBi variation over the whole band shown in Fig.10,
which is a little bit less than the simulated one for the
measurement loss. Fig.11 shows the measured and simulated
radiation patterns for H-plane (YOZ plane) at 0.69GHz,
0.82GHz and 0.96GHz. The stable HPBW are shown in
TABLE II. The measured HPBW is 61.7°with variation of less
than 1.5°at both H-plane and V-plane. Comparison between
several low frequency antennas are listed in TABLE III.
Fig.9. Simulated |S11| of the proposed antenna with different (a) L3, (b) d3.
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applications. The impedance bandwidth is greatly improved

loaded with resonator. Enhanced isolation of more than 40dB
has been obtained. Moreover, very stable radiation pattern and
gain have been achieved. With all these advantages, the
proposed antenna is desirable for base station application.
Furthermore, the remaining space of all the proposed design are
potential choices for embedding the high frequency element.
Therefore, the proposed design is also a promising choice for
multi-array dual-polarized antenna.

TABLE III
COMPARISON WITH REPORTED ANTENNAS
Ref Bandwidth Isolat HPBW Radiator
|S11|<-15dB ion (H-plane) size
(MHz) (dB)
[9] 770-980(24%) >23 60.8±3.7° Not Given
[10] 820-960(15.7%) >33 Not Given 0.55λ*0.55λ
Fig.10. Measured and simulated Gain of the proposed antenna. [11] 790-970(20.5%) >30 69.5±1.5° 0.75λ*0.79λ
[12] 698-960(31.6%) >25 90±5° Not Given
Our 670-980(37.5%) >40 61.7±1.5° 0.54λ*0.54λ
work

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