Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna: The Beginning

The book presents the proposal for the novel design of wideband magneto-electric (ME) dipole antennas for various applications in wireless communications. The standard ME dipole consists of a planar dipole, which acts like an electric dipole and vertically oriented quarter wave shorted patch equivalent to a magnetic dipole. The research demonstrates the good electrical characteristics for the proposed design of wideband ME dipole antenna and shows low cross-polarization of radiations, stable yard gain across the operating frequency band and almost identical radiation patterns in the E-plane and H-plane.