Dual‐polarized filtering antenna and its application for compact multi‐array.

This article presents a ±45° dual‐band dual‐polarized filtering antenna. The filtering antenna element is a dual‐polarized patch antenna that loads a parasitic patch with two rectangle slots to achieve compact multi‐array. Multi‐array consists of three 1×2 subarrays arranged, which are designed for 1.8/2.1 GHz FDD band applications. Very close‐arranged antennas exhibit radiation pattern invariance as well as in‐band radiation property. Radiation patterns are conformal with a compact subarray distance of 45 mm (0.29λ0), which is 56% smaller than that of the array using traditional filtering elements. Moreover, the total width is only 180 mm for three subarray‐composed antenna arrays. The average gain is 8.7 dBi with a low profile of 0.069λ0. The proposed array exhibits the filtering property of the subarrays with a very simple structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]