The present invention provides a vertically polarized antenna which comprises three 
layers of the 
dielectric plates which are a first layer, a second layer and a third layer. The right end of each layer of 
dielectric plate has a section of L area extending leftward from the right boundary of the 
dielectric plate, a stepped substrate integrated 
waveguide structure whose L area height is higher than that of the left side of the L area is formed by the whole second layer, a first layer L area and a third layer L area together. The length of the L area is L. The vertically polarized antenna comprises the stepped substrate integrated 
waveguide structure, through using the step transition technology is employed at an E plane, for E plane discontinuities, the transition of the E plane is carried out directly, the antenna 
standing wave is greatly improved, the efficiency is high, the size is only changed for several millimeters, according to the E plane transition structure, the antenna E plane 
directivity can be improved, at the same time through laying 
electromagnetic band gap structures at upper and lower surfaces, in the condition of not enlarging the antenna size, the backward 
radiation is greatly inhibited, and the antenna E plane 
directivity is further improved.