Design of Dual-Band Printed-Dipole Array Antenna with Omni-directional Radiation Behaviour

Authors

  • Jean-Marie Floch 1 King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia 2 IETR, INSA, 20 avenue des Buttes de Coësmes, 35708 Rennes, France
  • Ameni Mersani University of Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Sciences Tunisia Microwave Electronics Research Laboratory, LR18ES43, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia
  • Bandar Hakim King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
  • Khaled Sedraoui King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
  • Hatem Rmili King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Keywords:

Dual-band array, horizontal polarization, Omnidirectional radiation pattern, printed dipole

Abstract

In this paper, we present a compact array of 4 printed dipole antennas with ground plane, operating at 2.7 GHz and 5.2 GHz, designed for base station applications. First, the elementary printed dipole antenna, selected for its small size and good performances, is described. However, this kind of structures cannot cover two bands at the same time, which justify our proposal of a 4-elements network. Next, the 4-elements array is simulated, optimized, and measured to proof its performances with good agreement between the measurements and simulations. The measured gain of the 4-dipoles array is 4.21 dBi and 6.15 dBi for both operating frequencies 2.7 GHz and 5.2 GHz, respectively.

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Author Biographies

Jean-Marie Floch, 1 King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia 2 IETR, INSA, 20 avenue des Buttes de Coësmes, 35708 Rennes, France

Jean Marie Floch received his Ph.D. in Electronics and Telecommunication Sciences in 1992 from the INSA Rennes, France. He joined the IETR institute as Research Engineer where he supervised Master and Ph.D. Students, in addition to the execution of many research projects with collaboration of the industry. His research interests concern the design of different type of antennas for wireless applications.

Ameni Mersani, University of Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Sciences Tunisia Microwave Electronics Research Laboratory, LR18ES43, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia

Ameni Mersani received a degree in Electronics, Computer and Information Science from the University Tunis El Manar, Tunisia in 2009 and the master thesis in Electronics from the Faculty of Science of Tunis, Tunisia in 2012. She received the Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences (Electronics) from the University of Tunis El Manar, 2018. From September 2018, she was a Research Assistant in ISET’COM (Department of Telecommunication). From December 2019, she was a PostDoctoral Researcher with King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Her research mainly focuses on the development of design of wearable antennas for wireless applications and metamaterial.

Bandar Hakim, King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Bandar Hakim is an Assistant Professor of Electrophysics at KAU. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrophysics from the University of Maryland. He worked with the Medical Robotics group at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health at the Food and Drug Administration in Washington DC and the Neurology Department at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in the New York NY. He served as an industrial consultant in the US, Switzerland and Germany.

Khaled Sedraoui, King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Khaled Sedraoui received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology and Sciences Tunis (ESSTT), Tunis, Tunisia, in 1989 and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from ETS (Ecole de Technologie Superieure), Quebec University, Montreal, Canada, in 1994 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology and Sciences Tunis (ESSTT), Tunisia, in 2010. Since 1997, he has been a Faculty Member of College of Technology, Jeddah, KSA. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include, renewable energies integration and Power quality improvement, design and control strategy for Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS), Electric energy storage for R.E. systems and E.V., and Optimization for smart grid.

Hatem Rmili, King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Hatem Rmili received the B.S. degree in General Physics from the Science Faculty of Monastir, Tunisia in 1995, and the DEA diploma from the Science Faculty of Tunis, Tunisia, in Quantum Mechanics, in 1999. He received the Ph.D. degree in Physics (Electronics) from both the University of Tunis, Tunisia, and the University of Bordeaux 1, France, in 2004. From December 2004 to March, 2005, he was a Research Assistant in the PIOM Laboratory at the University of Bordeaux 1. During March 2005 to March 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rennes Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, France. From March to September 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ESEO Engineering School, Angers, France. From September 2007 to August 2012, he was an associate professor with the Mahdia Institute of Applied Science and Technology (ISSAT), department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Tunisia. Actually, he is Full Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Rmili’s research interests concern applied electromagnetic applications involving antennas, metamaterials and métasurfaces. The main targeted applications are reconfigurable antennas for multi-standard wireless communications systems, security of chipless RFID systems with fractal tags, terahertz photoconductive antennas for infra-red energy harvesting, UWB nano rectennas for collection of solar energy, phase shifters for low-cost 5G communication systems, and microwave absorbing materials for stealth technologies.

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2020-08-01

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Jean-Marie Floch, Ameni Mersani, Bandar Hakim, Khaled Sedraoui, and Hatem Rmili, “Design of Dual-Band Printed-Dipole Array Antenna with Omni-directional Radiation Behaviour”, ACES Journal, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 899–907, Aug. 2020.

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