A NOVEL WIDEBAND ANTENNA DESIGN USING U-SLOT

U-slot patch antennas with П-shaped feed slot are studied, and numerical results based on the FDTD method are presented. The effects of varying physical parameters are investigated with a goal of understanding the coupling among different resonators. It is found that the U-slot patch antenna can be designed to attain 50% impedance bandwidth as well as 30-40% gain bandwidth. By altering the sizes of U-slot and feed slot, the wideband characteristic can be changed into a duai-frequency char- acteristic.

Experimental Study of On-Body Radio Channel Performance of a Compact Ultra Wideband Antenna

In this paper, on-body radio channel performance of a compact ultra wideband (UWB) antenna is investigated for body-centric wireless communications. Measurement campaigns were first done in the chamber and then repeated in an indoor environment for comparison. The path loss parameter for eight different on-body radio channels has been characterized and analyzed. In addition, the path loss was modeled as a function of distance for 34 different receiver locations for propagation along the front part of the body. Results and analysis show that, compared with anechoic chamber, a reduction of 16.34% path loss exponent is noticed in indoor environment. The antenna shows very good on-body radio channel performance and will be a suitable candidate for future efficient and reliable body-centric wireless communications.

An ultra-wideband pattern reconflgurable antenna based on graphene coating

An ultra-wideband pattern reconfigurable antenna is proposed.The antenna is a dielectric coaxial hollow monopole with a cylindrical graphene-based impedance surface coating.It consists of a graphene sheet coated onto the inner surface of a cylindrical substrate and a set of independent polysilicon DC gating pads mounted on the outside of the cylindrical substrate.By changing the DC bias voltages to the different gating pads,the surface impedance of the graphene coating can be freely controlled.Due to the tunability of graphene＇s surface impedance,the radiation pattern of the proposed antenna can be reconfigured.A transmission line method is used to illustrate the physical mechanism of the proposed antenna.The results show that the proposed antenna can reconfigure its radiation pattern in the omnidirectional mode with the relative bandwidth of 58.5% and the directional mode over the entire azimuth plane with the relative bandwidth of 67%.

Wideband dipole antenna with inter-digital capacitor

A dipole antenna with wideband characteristics is presented. The proposed antenna consists of a dipole with periodic capacitive loading and a pair of coplanar striplines （CPSs） as an impedance transformer. By adding interlaced coupling lines at each section, periodic capacitive loading is realized. The periodic interlaced coupling lines divide each arm of the dipole into five sections, and currents are distributed on different sections at different frequencies, which is useful to achieve a wide impedance bandwidth. By parametric study using HFSS, the optimized parameters of this dipole antenna are obtained. In order to validate the simulation results, a prototype of the proposed dipole antenna is fabricated and tested. The results show that the proposed antenna can achieve a gain of 3.1 dB–5.1 dB and bandwidth of 51% for ｜S 11 ｜ 10 dB over the band of 3.9 GHz–6.6 GHz, indicating its good radiation performance and radiation efficiency.

Ultra-wideband printed antennas for communication applications

A new type of ultra-wideband （UWB） printed monopole antennas is presented, which is composed of a circular or armular patch and a trapeziform ground plane with a tapered CPW feeder in the middle. Both simulated and experimental results are presented, showing good agreement and therefore verifying validity of the design. The proposed antenna with a circular monopole patch achieves an 11.6： 1 measured ratio bandwidth of VSWR ≤2 （ from 0,79 GHz to 9.16 GHz）, while that with an annular patch obtains a measured ratio impedance bandwidth of 10.6：1 （from 0.87 GHz to 9.47 GHz）. In addition, these designs exhibit nearly omnidirectional radiation patterns with simple compact structures, which axe attractive in communications and others UWB applications.

Progress in ultra-wideband planar antennas

This paper introduces the advances of ultra-wideband （UWB） and super-wideband （SWB） planar antennas based on the printed monopole, microstrip slot and other planar antenna designs in the last decade. A brief history of the ultrawideband antennas is first provided. Several types of planar antennas for UWB systems with band-notched designs are reviewed. Special SWB planar antenna designs with the bandwidth ratio greater than 10：1 including metal-plate and printed monopole antennas and tapered slot antennas are presented and compared.

A Novel Ultra-Wideband Monopole Antenna with Band-Stop Characteristic

In this letter, a simple monopole antenna with variable band-notched characteristic for ultra wide band (UWB) function is proposed. Two L-shaped quarter-waveguide resonators coupled to the ground plane with two shorting tracks at the sides of the antenna are used to generate stop-band performance around 5.5 GHz (WLAN). The proposed antenna is fabricated on the substrate FR4 (relative permittivity of 4.7) and has a compact size of 16 × 28.5 × 1.6 mm. The designed antenna has a good impedance matching in 3.1 - 11.4 GHz frequency range with VSWR < 2, except the band 5 - 5.85 GHz.

Wideband Sierpinski Carpet Fractal Shaped Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for X-Band Application

In this paper, a wideband Sierpinski carpet patterned cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) operating in the X-Band is proposed. This DRA is realized from low cost Teflon. An impedance bandwidth of 50% is obtained cove- ring the entire X-band with similar radiation pattern throughout the band. The average peak gain within the band is about 5.5 dBi.

Wideband Polarization Reconfigurable Dielectric Resonator Antenna

A wideband polarization reconfigurable dielectric resonator antenna excited by quasilumped quadrature coupler（ QLQC） is proposed. By adjusting the value of varactor diode on the QLQC feed network,both the wideband LP and CP dielectric resonator antennas（ DRA） modes can be achieved. By selecting a different feed port,left-and right-handed CP conversion can be realized.It is found that the 10 dB impedance bandwidth of the LP and CP modes are 10. 1% and 44. 9%,respectively.For the CP mode,a very wide 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth of 37. 7% can be obtained which is much larger than that of the microstrip patch counterpart（ 3. 8%）. It is worth mentioning that the wideband CP DRA has a stable broadside radiation pattern across the whole operating band where the boresight gain is larger than 3 dBi.

Ultra-Wideband Design of the Wire Conical Antenna

Using the wire construction technique, a conical monopole antenna is fabricated. With the method of moments, the dependences of the voltage standing wave ratio （VSWR） on the number of the trapezoid wire elements, conical angles, wire radius, etc. are investigated. The calculation and the experiment show that the designed wire conical antenna has the ultra-wideband property and can be used for the engineering.

基于载体环境的宽带微带天线设计与分析

为确保航天环境下载体内的微带天线性能满足通信系统要求,采用多层和多模技术设计了单开槽WiFi频段的宽带微带天线,重点对载体及环境因素下宽带微带天线的性能进行仿真验证,同时分析了对天线性能的影响,并采用迭代补偿方法进行了性能修正。仿真分析结果表明:提出的迭代补偿方法对微带天线性能可以进行有效的校正;实物验证结果表明:载体内的微带天线性能稳定,满足工作频带要求。

Design of a low-sidelobe-level and wideband dielectric resonator antenna array for 60 GHz millimeter wave communication

A low-sidelobe-level( SLL) and wideband linear dielectric resonator antenna( DRA) array is proposed for 60 GHz millimeter wave communication. The array consists of 10 wideband DRAs which work at 60 GHz and it is fed by a Chebyshev feeding network to get a low SLL. To avoid the influence from the feeding network,a U-shaped substrate and a conformal ground are used,which can separate the DRA array and the feeding network. The parameter analysis and simulated results are presented.

基于半圆分形的柔性超宽带天线

以柔性材料聚酰亚胺(PI)作为介质基板材料,设计了一种柔性超宽带(UWB)半圆分形天线。天线辐射单元采用四阶半圆迭代嵌套分形结构,通过不同分形半圆调节电长度,增加天线的工作谐振点。通过在接地板开槽提高天线的阻抗匹配特性,实现UWB辐射。利用共面波导馈电方式提高天线的集成性。仿真与测试结果表明:所设计天线的阻抗带宽为2.98-10.61 GHz,带内全向增益达到5.58 dBi,天线最终尺寸为30 mm×24 mm,实现了小型化和可弯曲的特性,在共形于13 mm半径的圆柱后,天线仍能保持UWB辐射性能。

具有四陷波特性的小型化超宽带天线设计

为避免通信过程中所存在的窄带通信频段的干扰,提出一款具有小型化四陷波特性的超宽带(ultrawideband,UWB)天线。该天线的辐射贴片采用半圆与矩形构成的特殊图形,并进行切角,在接地板的改进中采用可以有效扩展该天线在高频带宽的阶梯型结构。为了达到小型化以及四陷波特性,在尺寸仅为19.5 mm×18 mm×1.6mm的天线的辐射贴片上进行陷波处理。仿真表明:此天线在4.1~4.5 GHz、4.9~5.85 GHz、7.15~7.75 GHz、以及7.96~8.55 GHz的频段回波损耗大于-10 dB,能够有效抑制数字微波通信频段波段、WLAN波段、X波段以及国际电信联盟波段对于信号传输的干扰,陷波后天线工作带宽达到3.5~10.6 GHz,可以广泛投入到UWB通信的应用,且陷波特性良好,四陷波特性也扩大了通信应用的领域,可以满足多种超宽带通信系统的应用。

3D打印技术在机载超宽带共形天线中的应用研究

为提高共形相控阵天线的设计制造效率,在平面紧耦合天线的基础上,设计了与飞机襟翼曲面共形的紧耦合超宽带相控阵天线。按照共形天线的安装要求,提出了混合3D打印技术,即采用熔融堆积成型技术及微滴喷射成型技术实现襟翼流线型曲面模型的打印,并完成了紧耦合天线辐射层的打印,验证了3D打印技术在共形天线上的应用。加上馈电结构后对单元电压驻波比(voltage standing wave ratio, VSWR)和方向图进行了测试,结果表明所设计的天线在0.4~2.0 GHz范围内,VSWR、单元方向图和阵列方向图符合设计技术指标,为后续共形天线设计和加工提供了技术基础。

Ultra-Wideband Log Periodic Dipole Antenna (LPDA) for Wireless Communication Applications

This paper proposes a printed log-periodic dipole antenna (LPDA) for ultra wide bandwidth (UWB) applications. The antenna comprises of cascading four U shaped elements of different line lengths with balun circuit to improve the antenna impedance matching. The proposed antenna dimensions are 50 × 50 mm2 with FR4 substrate thickness 0.8 mm. Full-wave EM solver HFSS (High Frequency Structure Simulator) is used for modeling the proposed antenna. The pulse distortion is verified by the measured the proposed antenna performance with virtually steady group delay. The simulation and experimental results show that the proposed antenna exhibits good impedance matching, stable radiation patterns throughout the whole operating frequency bands, acceptable gain and stable group delay over the entire operating band. An UWB extended from 1.85 GHz to 11 GHz is obtained, and the average antenna gain is about 5.5 dBi over the operating band with peak gain around 6.5 dBi and 70% average radiation efficiency.

基于双模槽线谐振器的宽带滤波介质谐振器天线

【目的】为满足车联网等无线通信系统对小型化、多功能介质谐振器天线(DRA)的应用需求。【方法】设计了一种基于微带-双模槽线谐振器馈电结构的宽带滤波介质谐振器天线。在天线设计中,利用双模槽线谐振器来代替微带-槽线耦合馈电结构中的传统槽线,形成一种新型微带-双模槽线谐振耦合馈电网络;该馈电网络中的双模槽线谐振器可作为能量耦合结构,从而有效激励DRA的基模(TE111);同时,也可产生两个槽线谐振模式参与天线谐振,拓宽天线带宽。此外,通过在微带馈线上引入马刺线以及槽线谐振器自身谐振特性,可以在天线通带两侧分别产生一个辐射零点,在增益曲线上呈现准椭圆滤波响应。【结果】为了进一步验证天线设计性能,对天线进行了加工、测试,测试与仿真结果基本一致。该天线中心频率为4.12GHz,阻抗带宽为53.40%(3.02~5.22 GHz),带内平坦增益为5.7 dBi。【结论】满足5G和车联网等无线通信系统的应用需求。

一种低剖面低RCS磁电偶极子天线阵列的设计

设计了一种低剖面宽带低RCS磁电偶极子阵列。从辐射散射联合特性的角度研究天线单元的谐振特性,构造出具有相同辐射性能、对交叉极化来波反射相位接近反相的两种不同单元。在主极化方向采用同一单元和SIW差分馈电构造宽带匹配的子阵,带内良好匹配实现对主极化波的低散射;再通过将子阵镜像布阵实现对于交叉极化来波的散射相消,从而有效缩减天线RCS。该天线工作频带为26.77~34.35 GHz(24.8%),峰值增益为17.7 dBi。与采用同一类型单元的参考阵列对比,所提磁电偶极子阵列在22.5~34.5 GHz范围实现了-10 dB交叉极化RCS缩减,并且辐射频带内没有明显的增益损失。

偶极子对激发的宽带平面端射高增益天线

文中提出了一款单向辐射特性的微带缝隙结构双偶极子宽带天线。该天线由阶梯型缝隙结构、共面双偶极子和5组引向器构成。阶梯型缝隙结构用于改善阻抗匹配,拓展了天线的带宽;共面双偶极子改善了天线的辐射特性;引向器提高了天线的增益。仿真和实测表明,该天线的相对带宽为66.4%(5.78 GHz~11.53 GHz),带内前后比为15.7 dB~27.4 dB、增益为8.4 dBi~11.9 dBi,并且天线的交叉极化低、辐射方向图稳定。该天线的良好性能使其在无线通信和雷达领域的应用具有极强的吸引力。

小型宽频带双极化电磁兼容性测试天线的设计与实现

为解决飞行器舱段等特定狭小空间内的电磁兼容性(Electromagnetic Compatibility,EMC)现场测试需求,设计与实现一款新型的小型宽频带双极化EMC测试天线。基于传统Vivaldi天线性能分析,采用修型设计并优化天线表面电流分布,设计一款新型宽频带单极化天线;运用非对称双极化设计方法,并组合两幅新型单极化天线,设计一款高隔离度的双极化EMC测试天线。仿真分析和实测结果表明:双极化EMC测试天线的工作频带为0.33~3.40 GHz(电压驻波比小于2),工作频带内天线方向图无裂瓣且增益平坦,天线系数达到17~36 dB/m,双端口隔离度优于35 dB;双极化EMC测试天线的尺寸为450 mm×450 mm×450 mm,适用于飞行器舱段等狭小空间内EMC辐射发射现场测试,有助于测试效率提升。