Broadband Printed Cross-Dipole Element with Four Polarization Reconfigurations for Mobile Base Station Array Antenna Applications

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</svg><sub>11</sub></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="427015.fig.008b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijap/volume-2011/427015/figures/427015.fig.008b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b><svg height="11.75" id="M32" style="vertical-align:-0.23206pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 8.2875004 11.75" width="8.2875004" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg><sub>22</sub></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><img alt="427015.fig.008c" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijap/volume-2011/427015/figures/427015.fig.008c.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(c) </b><svg height="11.75" id="M33" style="vertical-align:-0.23206pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 8.2875004 11.75" width="8.2875004" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg><sub>21</sub></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="d"><td><img alt="427015.fig.008d" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijap/volume-2011/427015/figures/427015.fig.008d.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(d) </b>phase of <svg height="11.75" id="M34" style="vertical-align:-0.23206pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 8.2875004 11.75" width="8.2875004" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg><sub>21</sub></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Measured electrical performances of the BFN_PR prototype.</table>

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Figure 8: Broadband Printed Cross-Dipole Element with Four Polarization Reconfigurations for Mobile Base Station Array Antenna Applications 