Review Article
Reconfigurable Magneto-Electric Dipole Antennas for Base Stations in Modern Wireless Communication Systems
Table 1
Comparison between ME dipole with other reconfigurable directional antenna candidates.
| Reconfigurable directional antenna candidates | Bandwidth | Unidirectional radiation patterns (front-to-back ratio, cross-pol) | Difficulty level to be integrated with tuning mechanisms |
| Patch antenna [1] | Narrow | Poor | Easy |
| Cavity-backed slot antenna [12] | Fair | Fair | Easy |
| Yagi-Uda antenna [13] | Fair | Fair | Difficult |
| Dipole [2] | Wide | Good | Difficult |
| ME dipole | Wide | Excellent | Fair |
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