Abstract
A substrate-integrated cylindrical cavity (SICC) fed polarization flexible cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (CDRA) is presented in this literature. To excite the CDRA, a unique and simple feeding approach based on substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) technology is demonstrated. This SICC is fed by two 50Ω microstrip lines, oriented orthogonally to each other. The SICC with a cross slot on its top metalized surface and the TM110 mode excites inside it act together to couple energy efficiently to the CDRA. Applying different phase combinations signals at the two input ports of the SICC, the CDRA can radiate in four different orientations linear polarization (LP) (along φ = 0°, 45°, −45°, and 90° ), left-handed circular polarization (LHCP), and right-handed circular polarization (RHCP). A conventional cylindrical dielectric resonator having relative permittivity ϵd = 10 is preferred. Its diameter, height, and cross-slot dimensions are optimized to operate the CDRA over Ku-band with 12% impedance bandwidth, 2-dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth of 11%, and 3-dB gain bandwidth of 12%. In this operating band, CDRA resonates at three different higher-order modes (HEM32δ, HEM113, and HEM12δ+2) with 8 ± 1.6 dBi/dBic gain for all the polarization states. The measurements of this antenna are conducted using two external phase shifters and one power divider.
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