A Novel Compact Filtering Antenna for 5.0-GHz WLAN Communication System

Authors

  • Shujia Yan School of Electronic and Electric Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China
  • Chongqi Zhang School of Electronic and Electric Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China
  • Qiang Chen School of Electronic and Electric Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China
  • Mei Song Tong Department of Electronic Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2022.ACES.J.370909

Keywords:

Microstrip antenna, filtering antenna, compact design, WLAN communication system

Abstract

The proposed antenna presents a microstrip filter antenna with both filter out-of-band rejection characteristics and antenna radiation characteristics for WLAN communication system. The antenna consists of four U-shaped microstrip resonators, one Γ-shaped antenna, and one parallel coupling line. The Γ-shaped antenna has the filtering function as the last order resonator, and the parallel coupling line integrates the filter and antenna as the conductance converter. After simulation and test, the results show that the center frequency of the filter antenna is 5.25 GHz, the fractional bandwidth
is 8.0% (5.0 − 5.42 GHz), the in-band gain changes smoothly, the maximum in-band gain is 3.059 dBi, the gain at 150 MHz outside the passband rapidly decreases to 10.0 dBi, and the overall out-of-band gain drops to below −24 dBi. The filter antenna has a simple structure and thin substrate, which optimizes the overall size of the filter and antenna, reduces the transmission loss between them, and is applicable to the RF front-end of wireless communication systems.

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Author Biographies

Shujia Yan, School of Electronic and Electric Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China

Shujia Yan received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, in July 2004, and the M.S. degree in control theory and control engineering from Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China, in April 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in detection technology and automatic equipment from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, in June 2014. She is currently working in Shanghai University of Engineering Science as a lecturer. Her research interest is mainly in Applied Computational Electromagnetics,intelligent detection and inductively coupled power transfer.

Chongqi Zhang, School of Electronic and Electric Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China

Chongqi Zhang received the B.S. degree in Rail traffic signal and control from Changzhou University, Changzhou, China, in July 2018, and the M.S. degree in Intelligent Perception and Control from Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China, in April 2021. He is currently working in Shenzhen Huiding Technology Co., Ltd. as an electronic engineer. He won the second place of the 16th “HUAWEI CUP” National Postgraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling in 2019. His research interest is mainly in Application of Radio Frequency Identification.

Qiang Chen, School of Electronic and Electric Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China

Qiang Chen received his B.S. degree in Geophysics and Computer Science from Yangtz University, Hubei, China, in 1986, and the M.S. degree in Geophysics from Yangtz University, Hubei, China, in 1997, and Ph.D. degree in Geophysics from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, in 2001. He is currently working in Shanghai University of Engineering Science as a Professor. Her research interest is mainly in theory and method of urban pipe network detection underground resource detection, and the development of electromagnetic detection instrument and equipment.

Mei Song Tong, Department of Electronic Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Mei Song Tong received the B.S. and M.S. Degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, all in electrical engineering. Currently, he is the Distinguished/Permanent Professor, Head of Department of Electronic Science and Technology, and Vice Dean of College of Microelectronics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He has also held an adjunct professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA, and an honorary professorship at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. He has published more than 500 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and co-authored six books or book chapters. His research interests include electromagnetic field theory, antenna theory and technique, modeling and simulation of RF/microwave circuits and devices, interconnect and packaging analysis, inverse electromagnetic scattering for imaging, and computational electromagnetics.

Prof. Tong is a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and Senior Member (Commission B) of the USNC/URSI. He has been the chair of Shanghai Chapter since 2014 and the chair of SIGHT committee in 2018, respectively, in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He has served as an associate editor or guest editor for some well-known international journals, including IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, International Journal of Numerical Modeling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, Progress in Electromagnetics Research, and Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, etc. He also frequently served as a session organizer/chair, technical program committee member/chair, and general chair for some prestigious international conferences. He was the recipient of a Visiting Professorship Award from Kyoto University, Japan, in 2012, and from University of Hong Kong, China, 2013. He advised and coauthored 12 papers that received the Best Student Paper Award from different international conferences. He was the recipient of the Travel Fellowship Award of USNC/URSI for the 31th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS) in 2014, Advance Award of Science and Technology of Shanghai Municipal Government in 2015, Fellowship Award of JSPS in 2016, Innovation Award of Universities’ Achievements of Ministry of Education of China in 2017, Innovation Achievement Award of Industry-Academia-Research Collaboration of China in 2019, Chapters Award of IEEE New Jersey Section, USA, in 2019, “Jinqiao” Award of Technology Market Association of China in 2020, and Baosteel Education Award of China in 2021. In 2018, he was selected as the Distinguished Lecturer (DL) of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for 2019–2022.

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Published

2022-09-30

How to Cite

[1]
S. . Yan, C. . Zhang, Q. . Chen, and M. S. . Tong, “A Novel Compact Filtering Antenna for 5.0-GHz WLAN Communication System”, ACES Journal, vol. 37, no. 09, pp. 996–1004, Sep. 2022.

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2022: Vol 37 Iss 9

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