频率可重构超宽带天线研究

超宽带天线和可重构天线是当今天线领域研究的热点。将可重构天线技术应用到超宽带天线设计中,讨论了频率可重构超宽带天线的设计思路。以印刷单极子椭圆天线为原型,给出了两个可重构天线的具体结构,并对天线进行了可重构带阻设计,避免与相关频段之间的干扰。仿真结果表明:重构后天线Ⅱ的低频获得了扩展,其相对尺寸的长和宽分别减小到最大工作波长的0.116倍和0.087倍,工作频段为0.174～10.9GHz,可重构阻带为5.1～5.95GHz,带宽比可高达62:1.     

Development of Ultrawideband Antenna With Multiple Band-Notched Characteristics Using Half Mode Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cavity Technology

Investigations on planar ultrawideband (UWB) antenna with multiple band-notched characteristics based on half mode substrate integrated waveguide technology are presented. The proposed antenna consists of a planar UWB monopole antenna and a half mode substrate integrated waveguide cavity which can generate multiple stopbands by proper arrangement. Planar antennas with dual, triple and quadruple notched bands are designed and implemented. The notched frequencies and their bandwidths can be adjusted according to specification by altering the cavity and feed line independently. These antennas are fabricated with two-layer printed circuit board (PCB) process. Sharp and high band rejection, narrow frequency notches are achieved, which are in good agreement with the simulated results. This technique is suitable for designing wideband antenna with multiple frequency notches or for creating multiband antennas.      

Miniaturization of UWB Antennas and its Influence on Antenna-Transceiver Performance in Impulse-UWB Communication

In this paper, a co-design methodology and the effect of antenna miniaturization in an impulse UWB system/transceiver is presented. Modified small-size printed tapered monopole antennas (PTMA) are designed in different scaling sizes. In order to evaluate the performance and functionality of these antennas, the effect of each antenna is studied in a given impulse UWB system. The UWB system includes an impulse UWB transmitter and two kinds of UWB receivers are considered, one based on correlation detection and one on energy detection schemes. A tunable low-power Impulse UWB transmitter is designed and the benefit of co-designing it with the PTMA antenna is investigated for the 3.1–10.6 GHz band. A comparison is given between a 50 $\Omega $ design and a co-designed version. Our antenna/transceiver co-design methodology shows improvement in both transmitter efficiency and whole system performance. The simulation results show that the PTMA antenna and its miniaturized geometries are suitable for UWB applications.     

超宽带阶梯形微带单极子天线的设计与研究

针对当前已有超宽带(ultra-wideband,UWB)微带单板子天线带宽窄、尺寸大等缺陷,设计了一款小型化UWB阶梯形微带单极子天线,采用开槽的矩形辐射贴片、阶梯形微带馈电线和缺陷地面结构(defected ground structure,DGS)实现良好的UWB特性.对天线的回波损耗、电压驻波比(voltage...     

Novel Design Approach for X-Band GaAs Monolithic Analog 1/4 Frequency Divider

A novel analog frequency divider which can generate a 1/4 frequency component is proposed. The frequency divider consists of a dual-gate FET and a two-stage capacitor-resistor coupled amplifier. This circuit configuration also enables achieving a small-size GaAs MMIC analog frequency divider. In this analog frequency divider, the input signal f/sub 0/ is mixed with signal component f/sub 0//x caused by noise or transients in a feedback loop. Then, a (1 -- 1/x)f/sub 0/ IF component is induced and is again mixed with the input signal. This process delivers the f/sub 0//x component regeneratively. Resultant continuous signal components f/sub 0//x and (1-1/x)f/sub 0/ have a harmonic relation when the system reaches a steady state. The f/sub 0//x component can be mainly obtained at an output port of the frequency divider. The operation band was simulated using a SPICE II computer program. The designed bandwidth and conversion gain for the 1/4 frequency divider are 8.5-10.6 GHz and -3 dB, respectively. Based on the simulation, a GaAs monolithic analog 1/4 frequency divider was made and tested. The developed 1/4 frequency divider provides a 8.5-10.2-GHz operation bandwidth and --5+-1-dB conversion gain. The designed and experimental values are in good agreement. The frequency division band can be shifted to higher frequency (10.65-11.2 GHz) by adopting the external matching circuit at the GaAs chip output port. The proposed analog frequency divider circuit can be applied not only for 1/4 frequency division, but also for 1/n frequency division (interger n > 2).     

Compact, Dual-Polarized UWB-Antenna, Embedded in a Dielectric

A compact dual-polarized antenna is described for ultrawideband (UWB) applications. The main features of the antenna, besides an ultrawidebandwidth are low cross-polarization and small dimensions. The feed of the antenna is based on the tapered slot antennas, enclosed in a dielectric. The new antenna concept, including the feed of the antenna for dual-polarization and its integration, is described in detail. Prototypes are shown and their performances are demonstrated, based on simulation and measurement results in frequency and time domain. The antenna prototype input match is better than $-10~{rm dB}$, a maximal gain of 10.5 dBi and a mean polarization decoupling of approximately 17 dB in the main beam direction in the 3.1–10.6 GHz UWB band are achieved. In the time domain a peak value of 0.4 m/ns, a full width at half maximum of 100 ps and a ringing of 145 ps are measured. With a maximum antenna diameter of 35 mm and 53 mm length this new antenna is also suited for UWB antenna arrays.      

Square Monopole Antenna Application in Localization of Tumors in Three Dimensions by Confocal Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection: Experimental Measurement

In this paper, application of a designed antenna for microwave imaging is evaluated. In previous research, application of an UWB antenna for microwave imaging was investigated. To the best of the author’s knowledge, the designed antenna was the smallest UWB antenna designed at the time of publication, for breast cancer detection. The smaller size antennas can cause more clutter in the image while, on the other hand, make it possible to use more antennas in the array at the same surface. Therefore, the smaller size of the antenna makes microwave imaging more challenging. Simulation results showed successful detection of 10 mm and 5 mm tumors by 16 UWB antennas with the hemispherical arrangement. For signal processing, the Delay-Multiply-and-Sum Algorithm is used for image reconstruction. In this paper results of two experimental microwave imaging is presented. Two tumors at different locations are placed and microwave imaging is performed. The experimental proves that the designed antenna in an array of 16 antennas is capable of detecting the 5 mm tumor in different location.

     

Capacity achieving high rate space-time block codes

It is well known, that the Alamouti scheme is the only space-time code from orthogonal design achieving the capacity of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system with n/sub T/=2 transmit antennas and n/sub R/=1 receive antenna. In this work, we propose the n-times stacked Alamouti scheme for n/sub T/=2n transmit antennas and show that this scheme achieves the capacity in the case of n/sub R/=1 receive antenna. For the more general case of more than one receive antenna, we show that if the number of transmit antennas is higher than the number of receive antennas we achieve a high portion of the capacity with this scheme.     

Compact Dual Band-Notched Monopole Antenna with Modified Radiating Patch for UWB Wireless Applications

Ultra-wideband (UWB) planar antennas with single or multiple notched frequency bands properties have recently been considered for various communications between wireless devices. In this study, a low profile microstrip monopole antenna with double band-filtering function is designed and investigated. FR-4 dielectric with properties of ε = 4.4 and δ = 0.02 has been employed as the antenna substrate. The configuration of the proposed design is composed of a modified fork-shaped radiating patch with inverted Ω-shaped slot and a pair of coupled Γ-shaped parasitic structures, a feed-line and a ground plane. The proposed dual band-notched UWB antenna provides good impedance bandwidth characteristic from 2.89 to 12.43 GHz for VSWR <2 with two notched bands which cover all the 5.2/5.8 GHz of WLAN, 3.5/5.5 GHz of WiMAX and 4-GHz of C bands ranges. The antenna provides good radiation behavior with sufficient gain levels over its operation frequency band.     

陷波平面超宽带天线的研究进展

随着对超宽带平面天线的研究和广泛应用,在超宽带天线中实现对其他无线通信设备特别是WLAN设备的干扰抑制成为近年来的研究热点。介绍了陷波特性超宽带天线的技术背景,对近几年国内外关于陷波超宽带天线的最新研究成果进行了分析总结,研究成果对超宽带天线的设计和频带的抑制具有一定的指导作用。最后对无线通信中超宽带天线的发展趋势进行了展望。     

Ultra wideband antenna

Ultra wideband antennas are specifically designed to transmit and/or receive very short time durations of electromagnetic energy. It is well known that UWB antenna design remains the major factor in the progress of UWB technology. This article describes a study of conventional antennas and why they are not suitable for a UWB system.     

Optimal transmission frequency for ultralow-power short-range radio links

Analysis determining the optimal transmission frequency for maximum power transfer across a short-range wireless link is introduced, including a comparison of near-field transmission with far-field transmission. A new near-field power transfer formula has been derived, which allows direct comparison with the well-known far-field Friis transmission formula. Operating charts are presented, which provide the designer with the preferred transmission frequency as a function of distance and antenna dimensions, together with surface plots which show the power transfer for this frequency. The analysis, performed for loop antennas, has been used to evaluate the oscillator transmitter as a low-power topology. It is shown that the requirement of a high-Q factor to realize a low-power oscillator need not be contradictory to achieving optimal far-field radiation characteristics. Based on this fact an approach to sizing loop antennas for low-power oscillator transmitters is suggested.     

一种基于微带槽天线的带阻性UWB天线的研究

提出了一种新颖的小型平面超宽带天线。该天线由微带槽天线的基本结构变形而来,为获得超宽带的频率特性,设计时馈电微带采用了圆弧形调谐枝节,金属底板的开槽设计成对称多边形之后通过数值计算获得最佳的天线几何尺寸。通过HFSS仿真和测试设计了一种频率覆盖3.1～10.6 GHz的超宽带UWB天线,其对包含在超宽带频段范围内的民用频率范围有一定的滤除作用,结构简单并且驻波特性良好,方向图具有准全向性。     

UWB天线的宽带化技术及其发展

在现代通信技术中,为了实现通信保密、排除干扰、提高通信效率等,超宽带系统得到了大力发展,然而,在一定程度上却受制于系统中超宽带天线的阻抗带宽。详细介绍了展宽天线阻抗带宽的4种方法,包括渐变阻抗方法、分形几何方法、微带天线开槽方法和非频变结构方法,其中分形几何方法由于其几何结构的自相似性使得其贴片电流分布具有自相似性,从而导致天线的多频点谐振,有效拓展了天线带宽。上述4种天线尽管作用原理互不相同,但在超宽带天线的工程应用中,研究者可将这些方法单独或同时应用于天线结构设计,使得天线既能保持良好的方向性和增益等性能,又能获得较大带宽。     

Composite right/left-handed transmission line based compact resonant antennas for RF module integration

Several electrically small resonant antennas employing the composite right/left-handed transmission line (CRLH-TL) are presented for integration with portable RF modules. The proposed antenna designs are based on the unique property of anti-parallel phase and group velocity of the CRLH-TL at its fundamental mode. In this mode, the propagation constant increases as the frequency decreases, therefore, a small guided wavelength can be obtained at a lower frequency to provide the small /spl lambda//sub g//2 resonant length used to realize a compact antenna design. Furthermore, the physical size and the operational frequency of the antenna depend on the unit cell size and the equivalent transmission line model parameters of the CRLH-TL, including series inductance, series capacitance, shunt inductance and shunt capacitance. Optimization of these parameters as well as miniaturization techniques of the physical size of unit cell is investigated. A four unit-cell resonant antenna is designed and tested at 1.06 GHz. The length, width and height of the proposed antenna are 1/19/spl lambda//sub 0/, 1/23/spl lambda//sub 0/ and 1/83/spl lambda//sub 0/, respectively. In addition, a compact antenna using a 2-D three by three mushroom like unit cell arrangement is developed at 1.17 GHz, showing that an increased gain of 0.6 dB and higher radiation efficiency can be achieved over the first prototype antenna. The same design is applied in the development of a circularly polarized antenna operating at 2.46 GHz. A 116/spl deg/ beamwidth with axial ratio better than 3 dB is observed. The physical size of the proposed mushroom type small antenna and the circularly polarized antenna is 1/14/spl lambda//sub 0/ by 1/14/spl lambda//sub 0/ by 1/39/spl lambda//sub 0/ and 1/10/spl lambda//sub 0/ by 1/10/spl lambda//sub 0/ by 1/36/spl lambda//sub 0/, respectively.     

Development of Multi-Broadband Planar Wire Antennas for Wireless Applications

A new type of multi-broadband antennas is developed for wireless applications. The broadband performance of this type of antennas is achieved by introducing a small gap on a wire loop while the multi-band operation is realized by simultaneously exciting one or more additional wire elements. Three antenna configurations are investigated for single-, dual-, and triple-broadband operations. The dual-broadband operation is obtained by employing a combination of a loop and a monopole. The triple-broadband antenna consists of a loop, a monopole, and an inverted-L structure. It is demonstrated that the multi-broadband antennas can achieve a bandwidth of 30% in the 1GHz band, 50% in the 2 GHz band, and 40% in the 5 GHz band, which cover the frequency bands for AMPS/PCS, GSM/DCS, PDC/PHS, and IMT-2000 mobile communications as well as for 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz wireless applications.     

渐变巴伦馈电的超宽带天线单元及阵列研究

为了满足超宽带电子系统对天线的需求, 研究了强互耦超宽带天线单元及阵列.首先设计了能够满足强耦合线极化的天线单元, 然后研究了超宽带相控阵天线阵, 设计了10×10天线单元组成的阵列.以此为基础, 利用高频电磁场仿真软件在二维周期环境中模拟了无限大周期阵列.结果表明, 在满足尺寸约束的前提下实现了二维周期边界下超宽带阵列的功能要求, 同时, 解决了强互耦效应下超宽带无限大偶极子相控阵进行全阵列仿真耗时极多、难度极大的问题.为了解决阵列单元如何有效馈电的问题, 在分析了天线单元结构设计的基础上, 研究了渐变结构巴伦的馈电特性, 并将这种馈电结构与上述强耦合超宽带天线单元相结合, 对单元结构和馈电方式进行了优化, 实现了超宽带馈电的效果.加工了天线阵列并在微波暗室中对不同频点进行了测试, 测试结果与仿真结果吻合.从测试结果可以看出, 主平面辐射方向图在不同频点内的最大扫描角波束峰值增益均大于5 dBi, 最大达到20 dBi, 满足设计要求.说明所设计的阵列天线能够应用于实际微波系统中.     

Design of a Compact Hexagonal Monopole Antenna for Ultra—Wideband Applications

This paper presents two design compact hexagonal monopole antennas for ultra-wideband applications. The two antennas are fed by a single microstrip line . The Zeland IE3D version 12 is employed for analysis at the frequency band of 4 to 14 GHz which has approved as a commercial UWB band. The experimental and simulation results exhibit good agreement together for antenna 1. The proposed antenna1 is able to achieve an impedance bandwidth about 111%. The proposed antenna2 is able to achieve an impedance bandwidth about (31.58%) for lower frequency and (62.54%) for upper frequency bandwidth. A simulated frequency notched band ranging from 6.05 GHz to 7.33 GHz and a measured frequency notched band ranging from 6.22 GHz to 8.99 GHz are achieved and gives one narrow band of axial ratio (1.43%). The proposed antennas can be used in wireless ultra-wideband (UWB) communications.     

一种新型双环宽带圆极化微带天线设计

针对微带天线存在固有频段窄、辐射效率低,且难以获得高增益的问题,设计制作了一种新型双环宽带圆极化微带天线。天线贴片单元采用由槽型环和带状环组成的槽带状结构。槽型环和带状环分别在频率较低部分和频率较高部分各提供一个最小轴比值,通过两个最小轴比值的适当结合达到明显的带宽增强效果。天线利用宽带巴伦结构进行馈电,有效增强了阻抗匹配。通过参数优化和实物制作,仿真与实测结果表明,该天线的阻抗带宽(VSWR≤2)和3 dB轴比带宽分别达到了37%和29.8%,增益达到6.4 dB。     

A fast MoM calculation technique using sinusoidal basis and testing functions for a wire on a dielectric substrate and its application to meander loop and grid array antennas

The input impedance matrix element of the method of moments (MoM) for an arbitrarily shaped wire antenna printed on a dielectric material Z/sub m,n/ is formulated to be composed of three terms Z/sup /spl psi/s//sub m,n/, Z/sup /spl psi///sub m,n/, and /spl Delta/Z/sub m,n/ involving single-, double-, and triple-integral calculations, respectively. The MoM based on the Z/sub m,n/ formulated in this paper (new MoM) is applied to two antennas-a meander loop antenna and a grid array antenna-as well as a simple loop used as a reference antenna. The computation time to obtain the current distribution of each antenna by the new MoM technique is compared with the time required for the conventional MoM, which has an impedance matrix element composed of four terms, all involving triple-integral calculations. It is revealed that the new MoM drastically reduces the computation time: for example, by a factor of 937 for the grid array antenna. In addition, the radiation characteristics of these two antennas are discussed. It is found that a reduced-size meander loop (62% smaller than the simple loop reference) has a radiation pattern similar to the simple loop reference. It is also found that the grid array has an axial beam radiation pattern without side lobes in the principal planes.