The present invention relates to the technical field of
radio frequency communications. Disclosed are a
broadband two-dimensional eight-beam switchable annular magnetoelectric
dipole array antenna and a design method therefor. The
broadband two-dimensional eight-beam switchable annular magnetoelectric
dipole array antenna comprises a first four-beam unit and a second four-beam unit which form an eight-beam array antenna; array antennas in the four-beam units are both located on a same horizontal plane and arranged on
dielectric substrates, are both in a four-leaf clover shape and differ by 45°, two
dielectric substrates are connected, and the bottoms of the
dielectric substrates are provided with
metal ground planes; shorting pins are provided at the top ends of leaves of the array antennas, and sequentially pass through the array antennas and the dielectric substrates to be connected to the
metal ground planes; and coaxial inner conductor
metal columns are provided at the junctions of the leaves of the array antennas, pass through the array antennas, the dielectric substrates and the metal ground planes, and are connected to feed ports. The present invention provides a
beam switching antenna which is small, has a wider overlapping bandwidth during multi-
beam switching, and has more switching states.