Research Article

Broadband Printed Cross-Dipole Element with Four Polarization Reconfigurations for Mobile Base Station Array Antenna Applications

Table 2

Gain and axial ratio performances of BPCDE_PR.

FrequencyPolarizationGain (dBi)Max. axial ratio (dB) at 3 dB beamwidth

1.7 GHz+45° linear7.19−20.75
−45° linear7.19−24.54
LHCP6.801.58
RHCP6.661.61

2.1 GHz+45° linear7.17−19.97
−45° linear7.07−17.02
LHCP7.471.96
RHCP7.052.23

2.5 GHz+45° linear7.55−17.89
−45° linear7.38−19.30
LHCP7.052.08
RHCP6.692.07