TY - JOUR A2 - Chen, Zhi N. AU - Wang, Can AU - Ge, Yuehe PY - 2014 DA - 2014/09/04 TI - A Novel Broadband Printed Dipole Antenna and Its Application for TD-LTE Communications SP - 960963 VL - 2014 AB - Novel double-sided printed dipole antennas are proposed and investigated in this paper. Two pairs of identical T-shape metallic loadings are connected to the traditional double-sided printed dipole, enhancing the operating bandwidth. Simulations show that the proposed printed dipole without the reflecting ground plane gives a bandwidth of up to 90.7% for S11<-10dB or 84.9% for S11<-15dB, which is significantly greater than those of the traditional printed dipole. The proposed dipole is then applied to design a dual-polarized printed dipole antenna, mounted on a ground plane. Measurements for the prototype show a bandwidth of 68.8% for S11<-10dB, covering the entire TD-LTE band. The gain is about 6–8 dBi and the isolation is over 24 dB over the bandwidth. SN - 1687-5869 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/960963 DO - 10.1155/2014/960963 JF - International Journal of Antennas and Propagation PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -