A Miniaturized Dual-Band Dual-Polarized Band-Notched Slot Antenna Array With High Isolation for Base Station Applications

In this article, a miniaturized dual-band dual-polarized slot antenna array is proposed for base station applications. It consists of two closely located 1 × 4 subarrays for the digital cellular system (DCS) and wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) operations. The band-notched slot antenna (BNSA) is designed and adopted as the subarray element with radiation-suppression characteristic at notch frequencies. The notch frequency for one subarray is designed at the center operating frequency of the other subarray. As a result, the radiation from DCS subarray could be effectively suppressed within the WCDMA band and vice versa, resulting in high isolation between two subarrays with a small separation distance. By using the artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) reflector, the array height could be reduced by half, as compared with the perfect electric conductor (PEC) counterpart. In addition, a four-way unequal power divider is designed for the array's beam-pattern synthesis. For the demonstration, the proposed array is fabricated and measured. The measurement results show that the dual-band array achieves the impedance bandwidths of 1.65-1.88 and 1.89-2.22 GHz, the isolations over 25 dB, the realized boresight gains of 12.2-12.8 and 12.3-13.2 dBi, and the sidelobe levels below -18 dB. The results indicate that the proposed array is a promising candidate for base-station applications.