Design of dual-band circularly polarized dielectric resonator antenna using a higher-order mode

Hon San Ngan, Xiao Sheng Fang, Kwok Wa Leung

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Abstract

A singly-fed dual-band circularly polarized dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is investigated in this paper. It makes use of the fundamental TE 111mode and higher-order TE113mode of a rectangular DRA for the dualband design. The DRA has a square cross section. It is excited by a single microstripline-fed rectangular slot fed. To generate circularly polarized (CP) fields, two corners of the DRA are truncated at 45°, exciting two sets of degenerate orthogonal modes, namely (TE111x, TE 111y) and (TE113x, TE 113y). Measured results show that the axial-ratio bandwidths of the lower and upper bands are 5.2% and 1.4%, respectively. The reflection coefficient, axial ratio, radiation pattern, and gain of the antenna are studied using ANSYS HFSS. Measurements were carried out to verify the simulations and reasonable agreement between the measured and simulated results is observed. © 2012 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2012 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, APWC'12
Pages424-427
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event2012 2nd IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, APWC 2012 - Cape Town, South Africa
Duration: 2 Sept 20127 Sept 2012

Conference

Conference2012 2nd IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, APWC 2012
PlaceSouth Africa
CityCape Town
Period2/09/127/09/12

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