This paper proposes a sector base station antenna for mobile wireless communication systems employing multiple woodpile metamaterial reflectors and a multiband radiator that establishes the same beamwidth in the horizontal plane for more than two frequency bands. Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) characteristics of each metamaterial reflector can be controlled through structural parameters of the woodpile reflector, e.g., the rod width and rod spacing. As an example of the proposed antenna, a design for a triple-frequency-band antenna that radiates at 800 MHz, 2,GHz, and 4,GHz is shown. The algorithm used to adjust the beamwidth of the proposed antenna is newly introduced and adjusts the beamwidth to be the same for each band using the rod width of the woodpile. A prototype of the proposed antenna has the approximately 90$^{circ}$ beamwidth in the horizontal plane at the three frequencies, and the measurement results agree well with the electromagnetic field simulation results.

In this paper, a novel method of partially placing electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) unit cells on both the power and ground planes in multi-layer PCBs and packages is proposed; it can not only sufficiently eliminate simultaneous switching noise (SSN), but also prevent severe degradation of signal quality in high-speed systems with imperfect reference planes resulting from the perforated structures of uni-planar EBG unit cells. On the assumption that the noise sources and noise-sensitive devices exist only in specific areas, the proposed method partially arranges the EBG unit cells on both the power and ground planes, but only around the critical areas. The SSN suppression performance of the proposed structure is verified by a simulation and measurements.