《Wideband Dual-Polarized Patch Antenna With Broadband Baluns》.pdf

78 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, VOL. 55, NO. 1, JANUARY 2007 Wideband Dual-Polarized Patch Antenna With Broadband Baluns Yong-Xin Guo, Senior Member, IEEE, Kah-Wee Khoo, Student Member, IEEE, and Ling Chuen Ong, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—A pair of novel 180 broadband mircostrip baluns are used to feed a dual-polarized patch antenna. The 180 broadband balun delivers equal amplitude power division and consistent 180 ( 5 ) phase shifting over a wide bandwidth ( 50%). We demon- strate that for a dual-polarized quadruple L-probe square patch antenna, the use of the proposed 180 broadband balun pair, in place of a conventional 180 narrowband balun pair, provides im- Fig. 1. Conventional 180 narrowband balun. proved input port isolation and reduced H-plane cross-polarization levels over a wider frequency range, while maintaining low E-plane cross-polarization levels and stable E- and H-plane co-polarization vides the four L-probe feeds with equal amplitude and out-of- patterns throughout the impedance passband. phase excitations, allowing for both probe leakage radiation and Index Terms—Balun, dual-polarized antenna, microstrip an- probe coupling to cancel out, hence delivering improvements tenna, wideband antenna. to the antenna’s cross-polarization suppression and input port isolation. Much work has been taken to address such similar problems previously [11]. However, the conventional 180 nar-