A wideband omnidirectional horizontally polarized antenna for wireless applications

A wideband omnidirectional horizontally polarized (HP) antenna is proposed and investigated in this paper. The antenna is composed of four arc printed dipoles, a small circular patch, four tapered microstrip transmission lines and four pairs of parasitic strips. To verify the performance of the antenna, simulations and measurements are carried out and discussed. The measured results show that the proposed antenna exhibits a 10-dB impedance bandwidth of 59.3% (2.23- 4.11 GHz). With an omnidirectional radiation pattern in E-plane, the proposed antenna has a peak gain of around 2 dBi across the operational band. The low profile and compact design, along with omnidirectional radiation pattern, make it ideal for wireless applications operated within WLAN (2.4- 2.484 GHz) and WiMAX (2.3GHz, 2.5GHz and 3.5GHz) frequency bands.