High-Isolated Full-Duplex Dongle Antenna Based on Even-Mode Suppression for B5G Communications

Authors

  • Yiran Da School of Information and Communications Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China
  • Xiaoming Chen School of Information and Communications Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China
  • Aofang Zhang Honor Device Co. Ltd, Beijing, 100095, China
  • Kunpeng Wei Honor Device Co. Ltd, Beijing, 100095, China
  • Ahmed A. Kishk Concordia University, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2022.ACES.J.371207

Keywords:

even-mode suppression, full-duplex dongle antenna, high isolation

Abstract

A space-shared full-duplex antenna with high isolation is proposed for universal serial bus (USB) dongles. A compact antenna with a compact size of 22 mm x 4 mm comprises a loop and dipole antennas, working as a vertical monopole and a horizontal dipole, respectively. The dipole-type is fed by a microstrip-slotline transition with filtering characteristics of odd-mode bandpass and even-mode bandstop, avoiding the even-mode excitation for the loop antenna. The inherent isolation is caused by the orthogonality of the modes and the even-mode suppression (caused by the microstrip-slotline transition). Thus, high port isolation, low envelope correlation coefficients (ECC), and high efficiency are achieved across the 5G band of 3.4-3.6 GHz.

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Author Biographies

Yiran Da, School of Information and Communications Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China

Yiran Da received her B.S. degree in information engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2020, where she is currently pursuing an M.S. degree. Her research interests include base station antenna design and mutual coupling reduction.

Xiaoming Chen, School of Information and Communications Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China

Xiaoming Chen (M’16–SM’19) received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 2006, and M.Sc. and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. From 2013 to 2014, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the same university. From 2014 to 2017, he was with Qamcom Research & Technology AB, Gothenburg, Sweden. Since 2017, he has been a professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. His research areas include MIMO antennas, over-the-air testing, reverberation chambers, and hardware impairments and mitigation. Prof. Chen serves as a Senior Associate Editor (AE) for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and received the Outstanding AE Awards in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. He received the URSI (International Union of Radio Science) Young Scientist Award in 2017 and 2018.

Aofang Zhang, Honor Device Co. Ltd, Beijing, 100095, China

Aofang Zhang received his B.S. degree in Electromagnetic Wave Propagation and Antenna, and his Ph.D. degree in Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Technology from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2014 and 2019, respectively. From 2019 to 2020, he was with the Consumer Business Group, Huawei Technologies Company Ltd., Xi’an. In 2021, he joined Honor Device Company Ltd., Xi’an, where he is currently a Senior Expert for the antenna design of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and routers. His current interests include antenna decoupling, multiband antennas, small size antennas, and MIMO antennas.

Kunpeng Wei, Honor Device Co. Ltd, Beijing, 100095, China

Kunpeng Wei received his B.S. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2008, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2013. From July 2013 to December 2015, he was employed at the Radar Research Institute of the Chinese Air Force Research Laboratory, Beijing, conducting research in the areas of phased-array antenna design and radar system design. He joined the Consumer Business Group, Huawei Inc., Beijing, in 2016, where he was an Antenna Specialist and the Director of the Xi’an Antenna Team for five years. Since 2021, he has been with Honor Device Company Ltd., Beijing when this company split from Huawei; he is currently the Director of the Honor Antenna Team. He is also the leader of a large group of antenna engineers and is responsible for the research and development of antenna technologies to guarantee the market success of all Honor’s mobile terminal products including smartphones, laptops, tablets, smartwatches, routers, smart screens, and earphones. He has authored over 50 refereed articles on consumer electronics antenna design. He holds over 15 granted U.S./Europe (EU)/Japan (JP)/China (CN) patents and has more than 30 patent applications pending. His current research interests include smartphone antenna design, small size 5G antenna systems in terminal devices, and millimeter-wave antenna array. Dr. Wei was a recipient of the Principal Scholarship of Tsinghua University in 2012, the Huawei Individual Gold Medal Award in 2018, the Huawei Team Gold Medal Award in 2017, and the Honor Team Gold Medal Award in 2021. He has been serving as an Associate Editor for IET Electronics Letters since October 2021.

Ahmed A. Kishk, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada

Ahmed A. Kishk obtained his Ph.D. degrees in 1986 from the University of Manitoba, Canada. In 1986, he joined the University of Mississippi, first as an Assistant Professor and then as a Professor. Since 2011, he has been a Professor at Concordia University, Canada, as Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Antenna Systems. He is a distinguished lecturer for the Antennas and Propagation Society (2013-2015). He was an Editor of Antennas & Propagation Magazine (1993-2014). He was an Editor-in-Chief of the ACES Journal from 1998 to 2001. He was a Guest Editor of the special issue on artificial magnetic conductors, soft/hard surfaces, and other complex surfaces, in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2005. He was the 2017 AP-S president. His research interests include millimeter wave antennas, beamforming network, dielectric resonator antennas, microstrip antennas, EBG, etc. He has published over 340-refereed journal articles and 450 conference papers. He is a co-author of four books, several book chapters, and the editor of three books. Prof. Kishk won the 1995 and 2006 outstanding paper awards for the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society Journal. He received the 1997 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from the Memphis section of the IEEE. He won the Outstanding Engineering Faculty Member of the Year in 1998 and 2009, and the Faculty Award for outstanding performance in research in 2001 and 2005. He received the Award of Distinguished Technical Communication for the entry of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 2001. He also received The Valued Contribution Award for outstanding Invited Presentation from the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society. He received the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Microwave Prize 2004 and 2013 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He has been a Fellow of IEEE since 1998, Fellow of the Electromagnetic Academy, and a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES).

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Published

2022-12-31

How to Cite

[1]
Y. . Da, X. . Chen, A. . Zhang, K. . Wei, and A. A. . Kishk, “High-Isolated Full-Duplex Dongle Antenna Based on Even-Mode Suppression for B5G Communications”, ACES Journal, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1232–1239, Dec. 2022.

Issue

2022: Vol 37 Iss 12

Section

Antennas, Metasurfaces, and Testing Methodologies for 5G/6G Communication