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1684 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, VOL. 60, NO. 4, APRIL 2012 A Low-Profile Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna Lei Ge and Kwai Man Luk, Fellow, IEEE Abstract—A new low-profile magneto-electric dipole antenna proposed by Luk et al. [11]. By combining a magnetic dipole composed of a horizontal planar dipole and a vertically oriented and an electric dipole, good electrical characteristics such as folded shorted patch antenna is presented. The antenna is simply low back radiation, stable antenna gain over the operating excited by a coaxial feed without the need of an additional balun. A rectangular cavity-shaped reflector is introduced for enhancing frequency band, and symmetric radiation patterns are achieved. the stability in radiation pattern over the operating frequencies. Based on these previous works, a novel wideband unidirec- A parametric study is performed for providing practical design tional antenna is presented in this paper. The antenna comprises guidelines. A prototype with a thickness of was designed, a pair of horizontal planar patches and a pair of vertically ori- fabricated and measured. Results show that an impedance band- ented folded shorted patches, which works as an electric dipole width of 54.8% for SWR 1.5 from 1.88 to 3.3 GHz was achieved. Stable radiation pattern with low cross polarization, low back and a magnetic dipole, respectively. A coaxial feed is designed radiation and an antenna gain of 8.6 0.8 dBi was found over the to feed the antenna, which makes the antenna d.c. grounded, operating frequencies. In addition, the antenna is d.c. grounded, satisfying the requirement of m