Design of a multifunctional and cost-effective wideband planar antenna array system for multiple wireless applications

In this paper, a new wideband array antenna system for multiple wireless applications is proposed. It is composed of two equispaced four-element arrays, phase shiners, diplexers, and power dividers. The two arrays are interleaved and connected to diplexers and power dividers. The proposed antenna system associated with feeding network and antenna elements can be integrated in a single substrate. Consequently, such a design is with low fabrication and assembly cost and compact size. A wideband antenna array with bandwidth from 2.0GHz to 6.0GHz and main beam pointing to 20 degrees is illustrated as an example. ©2006 IEEE.