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The antenna attains a bandwidth of around 46.5% operating over 3.14\u20135.04 GHz under reflection coefficient lower than \u221215 dB, and the port-to-port isolation is higher than 32.5 dB. It also achieves very stable radiation patterns with half power beam widths of 71.8\u00b0 \u00b1 2.5\u00b0 in both the horizontal and vertical planes and gains of around 8 dBi over its operating band. Besides, the mechanism of the obtained good performances is clearly explained from the angle of current. 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