Compact Dielectric Resonator Antennas With Ultrawide 60%-110% Bandwidth
The design of rectangular dielectric resonator antennas (DRA) with ultrawide bandwidths, in the range of 60-110%, is described. The DRA exploits multiple low-Q modes with overlapping bandwidths to achieve a wide contiguous bandwidth. This is achieved using a full-length, low-permittivity inset betwe...
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Published in | IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation Vol. 59; no. 9; pp. 3445 - 3448 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York, NY
IEEE
01.09.2011
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
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Summary: | The design of rectangular dielectric resonator antennas (DRA) with ultrawide bandwidths, in the range of 60-110%, is described. The DRA exploits multiple low-Q modes with overlapping bandwidths to achieve a wide contiguous bandwidth. This is achieved using a full-length, low-permittivity inset between a higher permittivity dielectric volume and a ground plane. With the proposed dielectric arrangement and a feed inside DR, it is possible to efficiently couple a sufficient number of such overlapping modes to a 50 Ω feedline. The volume of such DRAs is also reduced by means of a finite planar conducting wall. These advantages led to an example design with a bandwidth that is significantly wide and at the same time has a smaller DR volume than conventional DRAs. A prototype antenna designed to operate in the FCC UWB band from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz has a dielectric volume of 12 × 8 × 15.2 mm 3 (or 1.7 × 10 -3 λ o 3 at 3.1 GHz), and an average measured gain of 5 dB over the band. |
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ISSN: | 0018-926X 1558-2221 |
DOI: | 10.1109/TAP.2011.2161538 |