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A Filtering Patch Antenna With Flexibly Controllable Radiation Nulls
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  • jingwei Ma,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Dongfang zhou,
  • Dalong Lv
jingwei Ma
National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Research Center

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Yi Zhang
PLA Strategic Support Information Engineering University
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Dongfang zhou
National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Research Center
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Dalong Lv
PLA Strategic Support Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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Abstract

In this paper, a filtering patch antenna with flexibly controllable radiation nulls is presented. The patch antenna is fed by an F-shaped probe consisting of two arms along the Y-axis and a metal column along the Z-axis. A broadside radiation null on the lower band is generated by cross-coupling. Meanwhile, a folded defected ground structure (DGS) is introduced to generate an upper band radiation null. By adjusting the parameters of F-probe and DGS, two radiation nulls can be controlled independently to achieve great out-of-band suppression. For demonstration, a prototype is fabricated and measured. The simulation results agree well with the measured ones. A flat in-band realized gain of filtering antenna is about 7.1dBi. The proposed filtering antenna operating at 2.33 GHz achieves a wide relative bandwidth of 9.8% and out-of-band suppression level is more than 24dB.