Small patch/slot antenna with 53% input impedance bandwidth

A small microstrip patch/slot antenna, which achieves a very large bandwidth on a relatively thin substrate (about 0.01lambda₀), is presented. The performance is achieved by employing a combination of annular-ring loading on the patch radiator and the use of a crossed-slot for miniaturisation. An additional ring-slot in the ground plane is used to produce the wideband characteristics of the antenna. Simulated and measured results indicate that a 53% fractional impedance bandwidth is achieved with respect to the centre frequency of 1.409 GHz and the size of the antenna is reduced by 50% compared to the conventional circular patch antenna with respect to a given frequency     

一种结构新颖的半贴片宽带微带天线

设计了一种结构新颖的半贴片宽带微带天线。通过在圆形贴片上刻蚀两对环形槽,实现宽带特性,并在原有设计好的矩形贴片沿着馈电点所在的中轴线切掉一半贴片,减少了贴片一半面积,减小了尺寸。设计了这样一种半贴片宽带微带天线,不仅具有与原来全贴片基本相同的带宽特性,并且方向图与原天线基本相同,而且大大减小了天线尺寸。     

Novel design of broad-band stacked patch antenna

A novel broadband stacked E-shaped patch antenna is proposed in this paper. The proposed antenna has an input impedance bandwidth of about 38.41%, better than the conventional E-shaped microstrip patch antenna, which has an input impedance bandwidth of 33.8%. Through the use of the washer on the probe of the stacked patch antenna, the input impedance bandwidth is improved further to 44.9%. The radiation patterns are found to be relatively constant throughout the whole band. Comparisons of these antennas are presented in this paper.     

Wide bandwidth and broad beamwidth microstrip patch antenna

A novel wideband and broad-beam microstrip antenna loaded with gaps and stubs is proposed. The antenna is based on a two-layer stacked electromagnetic coupling microstrip patch antenna (ECMSA). The upper patch of the antenna is loaded with two arc gaps and three stubs. The ECMSA is used to achieve wide impedance bandwidth, while the gaps and stubs-loaded patch is used to obtain broad-beam. The impedance bandwidth is up to 34.6%. In this impedance bandwidth, the pattern bandwidth is 13%. In this pattern bandwidth, the 3 dB beamwidth of E-plane and H-plane remain stable and are about ±60°. Simulation results agree well with measured results.     

微带线馈电的宽带单层贴片天线

微带贴片天线已广泛应用于雷达系统,文中介绍了一种新型背腔式单层微带贴片天线,辐射贴片采用微带线馈电,为增加工作带宽,提供了两种不同的贴片形状,第一种是E形贴片,仿真及测试结果表明,此种单元在驻波比优于2的条件下可实现45%的阻抗带宽,但该单元的波瓣带宽较窄。为抑制交叉极化,通过在E形贴片上开四个槽,得到了第二种改进的E形贴片。该单元可实现14%的频带内驻波比优于1.5,同时交叉极化优于-15dB。对C波段8×16单元实验小阵的测试结果表明,该天线在17.9%的频段内具有良好的交叉极化性能及较高的工作效率。     

小型化缝隙加载圆极化及宽带微带贴片天线设计

提出了一种十字形缝隙加载的小型宽带及圆极化微带贴片天线的设计方法。该天线通过在方形贴片上加载一个大尺寸的十字形缝隙实现天线的尺寸缩减,介质基片采用由FR4和空气层组成的层叠结构,在缝隙中嵌入L型枝节,只需通过调整枝节上同轴线馈电点的位置来获得圆极化或宽带阻抗匹配。ANSYS HFSS仿真分析表明,天线的圆极化带宽（AR≤3 dB）为1.7%,阻抗带宽（VSWR≤2）为5.8%,天线在宽带范围内具有稳定的增益,峰值增益为7.8 dB,同时贴片面积缩减了52.3%。改变馈电点的位置可调节两个谐振频率使天线阻抗带宽达到9.4%,比传统的微带贴片天线阻抗带宽提高了114%。     

一种宽带WLAN贴片天线

文中提出了一种单馈的宽带贴片天线应用于无线局域网络通信。该天线由方形贴片、电抗性阻抗表面以及电磁带隙结构组成。文中提出同时加载电抗性阻抗表面和电磁带隙结构能够实现小型化以及宽带化。电抗性阻抗表面作为接地平面能够降低天线的谐振频率。电磁带隙结构能够提高天线的阻抗带宽。测试结果表明所提出的WLAN贴片天线的相对带宽为22.3%(S₁₁=-10 dB),覆盖4.77～5.97 GHz,可以获得6.3～7.2 dBi增益。与现有宽带小型化天线相比,该天线在保证宽带小型化的前提下仍具有较高增益,且辐射性能具有较高的一致性,十分有利于其应用。该天线能够覆盖IEEE 802.11a标准所规定的5 GHz频段,能够实现无线局域网之间的高速数传。     

A broad-band rectangular patch antenna with a pair of wide slits

A new broad-band design of a probe-fed rectangular patch antenna with a pair of wide slits is proposed and experimentally studied. The proposed design is with an air substrate, and experimental results show that, simply by inserting a pair of wide slits at one of the radiating edges of the rectangular patch, good impedance matching over a wide bandwidth can easily be achieved for the proposed antenna. With an air substrate of thickness about 8% of the wavelength of the center operating frequency, the proposed antenna can have an impedance bandwidth of about 24%. For frequencies within the impedance bandwidth, good radiation characteristics are also observed, with a peak antenna gain of about 7.2 dBi     

Design of a broadband planar cavity-backed circular patch antenna

This paper presents a design of a low-profile cavity-backed circular patch antenna for broadband applications. By using substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) based cavity and feeding mechanism, a planar cavity-backed patch antenna is realized. The proposed study demonstrates that a wide impedance bandwidth can be achieved by employing a rectangular SIW-based cavity underneath the conventional circular patch. Additionally, to generate circular polarization (CP), the patch has been reduced diagonally and shorted by a via-probe. Finally, a CP SIW-based antenna is designed and operating for a wide impedance bandwidth of 23.10% below −10 dB criteria, ranging from 9.09 GHz to 11.40 GHz and axial-ratio (AR) bandwidth of 270 MHz (10.30–10.57 GHz). The proposed design is fabricated by means of a printed circuit board (PCB) procedure. The simulated results are validated with the experimental one which agrees well with each other in the terms of S₁₁, antenna gain, AR and radiation patterns. Moreover, the proposed design exhibits unidirectional radiation characteristics with the measured peak gain of 6.6 dBic while maintaining planar integration.     

A low profile circularly polarized UWB antenna with integrated GSM band for wireless communication

A novel monopole antenna with wide impedance bandwidth and axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) is presented. The proposed structure is consisting of a wide slot hexagonal shape with an L-shaped radiator coupled inside the slot. Further, two inverted L-shaped strips are protruded on the opposite corners of the hexagonal patch for better radiation capability. The radiating patch is fed by a semi hexagonal ring feed mechanism followed by a tapered line coplanar waveguide (CPW) for improving antenna performance. The proposed structure is supported by a triangular shaped ground plane. An extremely wide -10 dB impedance bandwidth of around 195% and 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth of 32.5% is achieved. The designed antenna has stable radiation characteristics within the operating band. Proposed antenna is fabricated on FR4 epoxy substrate by means of standard photolithography process and measured results are found in a good match with simulated.     

一种新颖的宽带圆极化单极天线

该文设计了一种新颖的宽带圆极化单极子天线,该天线采用微带馈电模式。天线由C型贴片和改进的地板组成,整个天线尺寸仅为25×25×1 mm³。通过在C型贴片上切角和在地板上增加三角形微扰结构,可以有效增加天线的阻抗带宽和轴比带宽。该文给出了天线的设计流程,从表面电流分布分析了圆极化天线的工作机理。加工了天线实物,并对其进行了测量。仿真和实测结果表明天线具有超宽的阻抗带宽和轴比带宽。天线的工作频带为4.35～12 GHz(相对带宽为93.6%),3 dB轴比带宽为4.15～11.8 GHz(相对带宽为95.9%)。测量了天线的辐射性能和增益特性,实测结果与仿真结果吻合较好,证明了该天线的有效性。该天线可以应用于超宽带无线通信系统和卫星通信系统中。     

A quarter-wave U-shaped patch antenna with two unequal arms for wideband and dual-frequency operation

A wideband and dual-frequency quarter-wave U-shaped patch antenna with two unequal arms on FR4 substrate is presented. The U-shaped patch antenna is fed electromagnetically by another coaxially-fed patch on the same layer, which operates at a higher frequency band. In this paper, we first proposed a new technique to obtain two closely staggered resonant modes to achieve a wide impedance bandwidth using two unequal arms of the U-shaped patch for the lower band. For the substrate thickness = 5, 7.5 and 11 mm, the measured bandwidths of the antennas operating around at 900 MHz are 7%, 10%, and 18%, respectively. Then, we modify the coaxially-fed patch so that both bands are wide in bandwidth. The resulting antenna operating at 900 and 1800-MHz bands with the substrate thickness 11 mm has a measured impedance bandwidth of 13.3% and 20 respectively. This thickness corresponds to 0.033 free-space wavelength at 900 MHz. The far-field radiation patterns are stable in the two operating bands. The proposed antenna is simple in structure compared with the regular stacked or coplanar parasitic patch antennas. It is highly suitable for indoor mobile communications.     

一种新型环状宽带圆极化微带天线设计

本文设计了一种新型的环状开缝的宽带圆极化微带贴片天线,通过等幅度90°相位差的L型探针馈电。通过在环状贴片上开槽可以有效的增加轴比和阻抗带宽。传统的圆极化天线带宽受限于阻抗、轴比和增益的公共带宽,本文提出的天线得到有效带宽从1.1GHz到1.9GHz,相对带宽达到了53%以上,频带覆盖了GPS、GALILEO、COMPASS、GLONASS四大导航系统。该天线性能较好,加工调试简便,在卫星导航等领域具有广阔的应用前景。     

Stacked shorted patch antenna with tilted parasitic radiator

A new compact but wideband patch antenna is presented. Compact dimensions are obtained by using a shorted patch. The antenna bandwidth is increased by using a stacked patch configuration. Further increase in bandwidth is obtained by tilting the parasitic patch. The antenna prototype is fabricated and its input impedance and radiation patterns are measured     

Broadband CPW-fed folded-slot monopole antenna for 5.8 GHz RFID application

A folded slot is introduced to expand the impedance bandwidth and miniaturise the size of a coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed patch monopole antenna for radio frequency identification (RFID) applications. The designed antenna, which, including ground plane, is only 13 mm in height and 11 mm in width, can operate at the 5.8 GHz band with measured impedance bandwidth and average antenna gain of 30% and /spl ges/5 dBi, respectively, and also conical radiation patterns. These properties make the antenna suitable for RFID tags.     

手持RFID读写器微带天线的小型化设计

RFID读写器天线的小型化一直是研究的热点之一,利用HFSS进行了一款手持RFID读写器天线的设计。通过在微带天线的贴片以及在接地板上开槽,同时在贴片上面加载高介电常数介质基片的技术,设计出了一款小型紧凑的RFID矩形微带天线。它的尺寸仅为传统微带天线的68%左右,10dB回波损耗阻抗带宽50MHz,该天线能满足RFID系统的需求。     

High-gain and wide-band single-layer patch antenna for wireless communications

A technique employing the use of parallel feeds is applied to the recently proposed L-probe coupled patch antenna design. By employing only two L-probes, with proper separation, for feeding one single patch, a twin-L-probe coupled patch antenna is designed with both high-gain (10 dBi) and wide-band [25%, standing wave radio (SWR) /spl les/ 1.5] characteristics. In addition, the 1-dB-gain bandwidth is around 26%, which covers the impedance bandwidth. Furthermore, a noticeable suppression of cross-polarization radiation is observed. Simulation results are in good agreement with those noteworthy characteristics obtained from experiments. The proposed antenna is suitable for modern mobile communication applications.     

Broadband semicircle-fed flower-shaped microstrip patch antenna

A new wideband flower-shaped microstrip antenna patch, semicircle-fed, is investigated. The broadband characteristic is achieved by introducing flower petals at the four sides of a rectangular patch. The proposed antenna is able to achieve an impedance bandwidth of 63% for VSWR less than 2. Using the same excitation mechanism, a comparison between the proposed antenna, a similar-size rectangular-shaped patch antenna and a diamond-shaped patch antenna is given.     

A broad-band U-slot rectangular patch antenna on a microwavesubstrate

A broad-band U-slot rectangular patch antenna printed on a microwave substrate is investigated. The dielectric constant of the substrate is 2.33. The antenna is fed by a coaxial probe. The characteristics of the U-slot patch antenna are analyzed by the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Experimental results for the input impedance and radiation patterns are obtained and compared with numerical results. The maximum impedance bandwidth achieved is 27%, centered around 3.1 GHz, with good pattern characteristics     

Broadband probe-fed patch antenna with a U-shaped ground plane forcross-polarization reduction

A broadband probe-fed patch antenna with a novel three-dimensional (3D) U-shaped ground plane is proposed and experimentally studied. The proposed antenna has a thick air substrate, and by placing the two flanges of the U-shaped ground plane in parallel to and at a suitable distance from the radiating edges of the antenna's radiating patch, a wide impedance bandwidth (>25%) with much reduced cross-polarization radiation can be obtained, compared to the case with a conventional planar ground plane. In addition, enhanced antenna gain for the proposed antenna is also observed. Details of the proposed antenna and experimental results are presented and discussed