Wideband Cup Dielectric Resonator Antenna With Stable Omnidirectional Patterns

Authors

  • Shuxin Zheng School of Information and Communications Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
  • Nan Yang School of Electronics and Information Technology (School of Microelectronics) and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing Chips and Systems Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • Xiaoming Chen School of Information and Communications Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
  • Zhen-Yuan Zhang Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen 518055, China
  • Bingyi Qian School of Information and Communications Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
  • Ahmed A. Kishk Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Concordia University, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2024.ACES.J.391009

Keywords:

Dielectric resonator antenna (DRA), omnidirectional, wideband

Abstract

A wideband omnidirectional cup dielectric resonator antenna (CDRA) is designed by utilizing three modes (DR TM01δ, coil, and monopole modes) for the first time. It deploys the modified coil feeding structure comprising four coil segments and two close-by probes. The four coil segments provide an equivalent magnetic-current loop and the two probes act as an electric monopole. Thus, the modified feeding structure can excite the DR TM01δ mode and two neighbor resonances extending the operating bandwidth. All of these modes have omnidirectional characteristics. To verify the idea, a CDRA is designed, fabricated, and measured. The CDRA is 0.61λ0×0.32λ0 (where λ0 is the free-space wavelength at the center frequency) with a bandwidth of 67.7% (3.28-6.64 GHz). The antenna has stable omnidirectional radiation patterns, high radiation efficiencies, and a low cross-polarized level within the operating bandwidth.

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Author Biographies

Shuxin Zheng, School of Information and Communications Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

Shuxin Zheng received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and information engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2021, where she is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electronics science and technology from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an. Her current research direction is antenna design.

Nan Yang, School of Electronics and Information Technology (School of Microelectronics) and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing Chips and Systems Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China

Nan Yang received the B.Sc. and M.Eng. degrees in electronic engineering from Zhejiang University (ZJU), Hangzhou, China, in 2008 and 2012, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2016. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the City University of Hong Kong from 2016 to 2020. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electronics and Information Technology (School of Microelectronics), Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Guangzhou, China. His current research interests include dielectric resonator antennas, lens antennas, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antennas, transparent antennas, and microwave and millimeter-wave circuits.

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

Xiaoming Chen received the 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 5G multi-antenna techniques, over-the-air (OTA) testing, and reverberation chambers.

Zhen-Yuan Zhang, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen 518055, China

Zhen-Yuan Zhang received the B.S. degree in electronic science and engineering from the Nanjing University of Posts and Communications, Nanjing, China, in 2011, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2013 and 2019, respectively. Currently, he is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. His current research interests include circularly polarized antenna design, wideband base station antenna design, and antenna break decoupling techniques.

Bingyi Qian, School of Information and Communications Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

Bingyi Qian received the B.S. degree in electronics and information engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2020, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electronics science and technology from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an. His current research interests include microstrip antenna design, mutual coupling reduction and 5G mobile antennas.

Ahmed A. Kishk, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Concordia University, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada

Ahmed A. Kishk received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, in 1986. In 1986, he joined the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA, first as an Assistant Professor and then a Professor. Since 2011, he has been a Professor and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in advanced antenna systems with Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. He has published over 340 refereed journal articles and 450 conference papers. He is a co-author of four books and several book chapters, and an editor of three books. His research interest includes millimeter-wave antennas, beamforming networks, dielectric resonator antennas, microstrip antennas, and electromagnetic band gap (EBG).

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Published

2024-10-31

How to Cite

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S. . Zheng, N. . Yang, X. . Chen, Z.-Y. . Zhang, B. . Qian, and A. A. . Kishk, “Wideband Cup Dielectric Resonator Antenna With Stable Omnidirectional Patterns”, ACES Journal, vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 908–915, Oct. 2024.

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2024: Vol 39 Iss 10

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AM for Next Gen Wireless

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