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Wideband Magnetoelectric Dipole Antennas

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The magnetoelectric (ME) dipole antenna is a type of complementary antenna. The basic antenna geometry includes a planar electric dipole and a vertical shorted quarter-wave patch antenna. Traditionally, a proximity coupled feed is utilized to excite the antenna which performs as a combination of an electric dipole and a magnetic dipole. As a result, the antenna exhibits a wide impedance bandwidth, a stable gain, and a stable radiation pattern with low cross-polarization and back radiation levels over the operating frequencies. After the discourse of the fundamental magnetoelectric dipole design, several studies are devoted to antenna height reduction and alternative feed methods. And then some research works, focusing on designing magnetoelectric dipoles with different polarizations, are presented. The magnetoelectric dipole antenna is also modified for the fulfillments of various applications, such as UWB and 60-GHz wireless communications. Other than the magnetoelectric dipole, several other types of complementary antennas are also introduced.

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported in part by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR (Project No. CityU 119511 (9041677)).

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China

    Mingjian Li & Kwai-Man Luk

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Zhi Ning Chen

  2. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

    Duixian Liu

  3. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

    Hisamatsu Nakano

  4. Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore

    Xianming Qing

  5. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Thomas Zwick

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Li, M., Luk, KM. (2016). Wideband Magnetoelectric Dipole Antennas. In: Chen, Z., Liu, D., Nakano, H., Qing, X., Zwick, T. (eds) Handbook of Antenna Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-44-3_49

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