A Compact Dual-Band Printed Yagi-Uda Antenna for GNSS and CMMB Applications

A printed Yagi-Uda antenna with a meandered driven dipole and a concave parabolic reflector is proposed for dual-band operations of L1-band Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and S-band China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB). The antenna is designed and fabricated on a thin dielectric substrate, and measured at 1580 MHz in the low band (L1-band) and 2645 MHz in the high band (S-band), respectively, with directivities of 6.7 and 4.9 dBi, front-to-back ratios of 13.1 and 10.3 dB, cross-polarization levels of -23.8 and -21.9 dB, bandwidths of 4.0% and 6.5%, and antenna efficiencies of -0.40 dB (91.2%) and -0.96 dB (80.2%), which are better than -1 dBi in terms of the three-dimensional (3-D) average gain. The occupied area of this dual-band antenna is the same as that of the previously proposed single-band one. With these properties, the proposed antenna is promising for combo applications of L1-band GNSS and S-band CMMB.

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