Folded mid band dipole with improved low band transparency

Abstract

A midband dipole for a multiband antenna has a plurality of decoupler circuits; a plurality of dipole arms, each having a first region, a second region, and a connecting trace coupling the first region to the second region, wherein the first region is coupled to one of the plurality of decoupler circuits, and the second region is coupled to an adjacent decoupler circuit; and a plurality of suppressor plates, wherein each of the plurality of suppressor plates is coupled to a corresponding first region of a corresponding dipole arm, and each of the plurality of suppressor plates covers a gap between the corresponding dipole arm and an adjacent dipole arm. The midband dipole mitigates resonance from nearby lowband dipoles by suppressing resonance where hot spots might occur in gaps between adjacent dipole arms.

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