Dual- Band Dielectric Resonator Antenna for C and X Band Application. Copyright . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The proposed technique combines a slot antenna and a dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) to effectively design a dual band dielectric resonant antenna without compromising miniaturization or its efficiency. It is observed that the resonance of the slot and that of the dielectric structure merged to achieve extremely wide bandwidth over which the antenna polarization and radiation pattern are preserved. Here the effect of slot size on the radiation performance of the DRA is studied. The antenna structure is simulated using two simulators (Ansoft HFSS and CST- Studio software). The simulated results are presented and compared with the measured results. Bandwidth and minimal size antennas that are capable of providing better performance over a wide range of frequency spectrum. Desired patch antenna design is initially simulated by using high frequency simulation software CAD-FEKO and patch antenna is. Ensures the matching of the bandwidth of the transmitted and/or the received signal. Dual frequency antennae exhibit a dual-resonant behaviour in a single radiating structure. The design of dual band antennas has been a subject of intensive study during six. Keyword: Microstrip patch antenna 4G Technology Resonant Frequency LTE band Bandwidth. Introduction Thanks to the success of smartphones and mobile-ready portables, such as laptops or.
This DRA has a gain of 6. It is shown that the size of the slot can significantly affect the radiation properties of the DRA, and there are good agreements between simulation and measured results. Introduction. Modern broadband communication systems and radars require light weight compact antennas with high gain and wide bandwidth. However, Patch antennas are a popular choice for microwave electronically scanned array applications. They offer low- profile, light- weight, and low- cost solutions that can be readily integrated into microwave circuits. But the disadvantage is narrow impedance bandwidth (BW) where probe fed or proximity- coupled patch antennas are typically limited to ~5% BW. By using aperture- coupled patch antenna, bandwidth can be increased up to ~1. Dielectric resonators have also received great interest in recent years for their potential applications in microwave and millimeter wave communication systems. They have been widely used as a tuning component in shielded microwave circuits such as filters, oscillators, and cavity resonators. With an appropriate feed arrangement, they can also be used as antennas, and they offer efficient radiation . Dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs) in cylindrical, rectangular, and hemispherical shapes and other geometries may be used. Recently, the dielectric resonator antenna has been proposed as an alternative to the popular microstrip patch parallel with rapid progress in microwave communication that demands miniaturization of microwave circuits. Dielectric antennas have proved themselves to be ideal candidates for antenna applications by offering several advantages, which include mechanical simplicity, very low conductor loss, large impedance bandwidth . Very high radiation efficiency can be smaller than conventional metal antennas and more resistant to proximity detuning when placed close to another object. DRA can be easily varied by suitably choosing the dielectric constant of the resonator material and its dimensions . Dielectric resonators (DRs) are preferred because they are easy to fabricate and offer a more degree of freedom to control the resonant frequency and quality factor. However, the high Q factor restricts the bandwidth, which limits its usefulness as an antenna . Therefore, high permittivity DRs are preferred in the design of antenna. Some investigations have been conducted to enhance gain of a DRA by employing offset dual- disk DRs . Design and Simulation To increase the usable bandwidth of a DRA, a method is demonstrated that manipulates the aspect ratio of the DRA to obtain dual- mode operation such that both modes have a VSWR less than 2. In this work, we propose a dual band dielectric resonator antenna. By using closed form of design equations, we design aperture- coupled dielectric resonator antenna on 3. D simulator. The proposed technique is mechanically stable and easy to fabricate. Here, the main concern is to obtain dual band by optimized shape and compact size of slot on ground plane in DRA system. The dielectric resonator, which has a dielectric constant , is placed above a thin ground plane in which inductive rectangular slot inserted for matching the coupled power coming from feed line. Below ground plane is a dielectric segment with a dielectric constant of . The DR has a higher permittivity than that of the dielectric segment. The DRA is excited by a feed line. This arrangement is called aperture coupled dielectric resonator antenna. The DRAs investigated here have a rectangular shape. Similarly, the dielectric segment of lower permittivity has the same surface dimension as the ground plane. The design procedure is summarized as follows. Figure 1: Layered structure of DRA. For well- guided modes, the fields are confined within the guide and a further approximation can be made. This approximation is equivalent to assuming that magnetic walls exist at and . The resonance frequency of the lowest mode of the DR is set close to the lower end of the desired operating band as the starting point. Since dielectric permittivity values are fixed, the parameters length, breadth, height of DR, and height of substrate are used to determine the overall operating band of the DRA and the parameters like length and width of slot can be used for fine- tuning of operating band and/or to achieve good impedance matching within a desired band. Following this method, a rectangular DRA was designed and optimized using CST- EM STUDIO and ANSOFT HFSS software. Several commercial software packages are available for analyzing three- dimensional electromagnetic problems, which can be used to predict the input impedance with a reasonably high degree of accuracy. These software tools are better suited for analysis than design, since the computational time can be lengthy, especially for high values of the dielectric constant. Although there are no simple equations for designing the slot dimensions of the various antenna parameters, the following guidelines can be used as a starting point for rectangular slots. A good starting value is 1. By using the formula given below, we can predict the value of. DRA and substrate, respectively. A reasonable choice is , where and are width and length of the slot, respectively. At high frequencies, might result in a very narrow slot that may be difficult to fabricate due to etching limitations. At these frequencies, a wider slot width can be used. The dimensions of DR are 1. Using the tuning and optimization functions of EM simulator, a double- band DRA is obtained. Model Analysis. This section examines the dielectric waveguide model, used to estimate the resonant frequency and Q- factor for the rectangular DRA. The dielectric waveguide model was first proposed by Marcatili . The dielectric guide is shown in Figure 2(a), having a rectangular cross- section of width a in the - direction, height b in the - direction, and the waves propagating in the - direction. The field modes in the guide can be divided into TEy and TMy (where and denote the number of field in the - and - direction, resp., inside the guide). The fields within the guide are assumed to vary sinusoidally, while the fields outside the guide are assumed to decay exponentially. In order to simplify the analysis, the fields in the shaded regions of Figure 2(b) are assumed to be zero. By matching the fields at the boundary conditions, the wave propagation numbers in the - , - , and - directions (, , and ) (for and ) and the attenuation constants in the - and - directions (, ) (for and ) can be determined using (1) to (1. Figure 2: Dielectric waveguide. In the DRAs, to model the dielectric resonator antenna, the waveguide is truncated along the - direction at , as shown in Figure 3(b) with magnetic walls. This model can be used for an isolated DRA in free space (with dimensions , , and ) or as is used in practice, for a DRA (with dimensions , , and ) mounted on a ground plane, as shown in Figure 3(c). In this latter case, image theory was used to remove the ground plane and double the height of the DRA. Figure 3: Waveguide modeled as a DRA. For a rectangular DRA with dimensions , , the lowest- order mode will be TEz. Using the dielectric waveguide model, this leads to the following fields within the DRA. To solve for the resonant frequency of the DRA, (7), (8), and (9) are first substituted into (1. The resonant frequency can then be obtained by solving for in (6), or we can directly use (1. These quantities are given by. DRA. The impedance bandwidth (BW) of the DRA can be estimated from the radiation - factor using. VSWR). The above equations can be used to generate the graphs for factors for various values of dielectric constant and various values of . The normalized - factor is defined as. The field distribution of the lowest- order mode of the rectangular DRA, determined by the dielectric waveguide model equations, is similar to that of a short magnetic dipole. The radiation patterns generated by the DRA can, therefore, be approximated using the short magnetic dipole. The equivalent model for a rectangular DRA was mounted on an infinite ground plane and excited in the TEz. This corresponds to a horizontal magnetic dipole aligned along the - axis. The resulting radiation patterns assume that the DRA is mounted on an infinite ground plane. For practical applications, DRAs are mounted on finite ground planes, which will have an effect on the radiation patterns due to diffraction from the edges. Result and Observation. The authors observed the dual- band dielectric resonant antenna with resonant frequency 6. The bandwidth of each band is 2. When we vary the dimension of various parameter of Dielectric Resonator (DR) and slot for optimization, we realize that the resonance frequency of DRA depends on the physical dimensions of the DR and slot. The physical structure of Antenna is shown in Figures 4 and 5. Figure 4: Fabricated model of aperture- coupled DRA. Figure 5: Aperture feedline.
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