Bandwidth Of Patch Antenna Research Articles

A wideband mmWave microstrip antenna based on zero‐mode and TM ‐mode resonances

Millimeter-Wave (mmWave) antennas for 5G communication require wide bandwidth, directional radiation patterns, low-profile design and multilayer compatibility for module-level integration. In this paper, we introduce a method of loading shorting pins to a patch antenna to generate extra zero modes. By merging the 2nd zero-mode, TM01 mode, 3rd zero-mode, and TM20 mode in the frequency spectrum, a wide bandwidth varying from 23 to 34 GHz and a low-profile as 0.762 mm can be obtained. Based on this wideband patch antenna, a 4 × 2 antenna array is obtained with the ±40° scanning performance. Theoretical analysis, full-wave simulations, and experimental performances are presented, validating the effectiveness of this method to achieve a wideband performance in mmWave band. It can be applied to 5G communication systems in mmWave band.

Design of a wideband patch antenna and performance enhancement using an AMC reflector surface for on-body communication at 2.45 GHz

ABSTRACT Wireless biotelemetry enables the formation of communication link from living body to an external monitoring device. Isolation of near field electromagnetic (EM) waves from body tissue, and wide bandwidth to avoid frequency detuning in different biological environments are the important parameters of on-body antennas. In this paper, a conformal defected ground patch antenna with artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) is introduced for on-body communication. Initially, a quarter wave wide band antenna with a shorting pin is designed to operate at 2.45 GHz. It resonates effectively on body tissue but most of the near field EM radiations are absorbed by tissue. Poor radiation efficiency of 10% and high specific absorption rate (SAR) value of 7.73 W/Kg were obtained. Thus, to reduce the effect of tissue loading on antenna performance an AMC-based structure is added. Better impedance matching, high efficiency (65%) and directivity (7.3 dBi) is achieved with AMC structure. Furthermore, unidirectional radiation pattern with SAR value of 1.43W/Kg is attained. Wide bandwidth of 600 MHz on phantom enables the antenna to withstand frequency detuning effect due to body postures and movements. Antenna robustness is analysed by bending the structure at different radii along X-axis and Y-axis.

A Wideband mmWave Microstrip Patch Antenna Based on Zero-Mode and TM-Mode Resonances

Millimeter wave (mmWave) antennas for 5G communication require wide bandwidth, directional radiation patterns, low-profile design and multi-layer compatibility for module-level integration. In this paper, we introduce a method of loading shorting pins to a patch antenna to generate extra zero-modes. By merging the 2nd zero-mode, TM01 mode, 3rd zero-mode and TM20 mode in the frequency spectrum, a wide bandwidth varying from 23 to 34 GHz (relative bandwidth of 38.6%) and with a low-profile of 0.762 mm (0.07λ0, where λ0 is the wavelength at a middle frequency of 28.5 GHz) can be obtained. Based on this wideband patch antenna, a 4 × 2 antenna array is obtained with the ±40° scanning performance. Theoretical analysis, full-wave simulations and experimental performances are presented, validating the effectiveness of this method to achieve a wideband performance in a mmWave band. It can be applied to 5G communication systems using mmWave bands.

Antenna Radiation Efficiency Estimation From Backscattering Measurement Performed Within Reverberation Chambers

This paper presents a contactless measurement method for antenna radiation efficiency estimation within reverberation chambers (RCs). This method does not require to connect any analyzer to the antenna under test (AUT). The AUT radiation efficiency is obtained from the differential measurement of the RC composite $Q$-factor estimated for two AUT load conditions, namely an open circuit and a \SI[detect-weight]{50}{\ohm} load. Remotely-controlled RF switches are used in order to keep the setup identical for both measurements. The method is experimentally validated in two RCs of different volumes (1~m$^3$ and 19~m$^3$) with a wideband patch antenna in the 1.8~GHz to 2.8~GHz frequency range. The estimated efficiency is found to be in very good agreement with the one obtained through a conventional invasive RC measurement technique. This new method is suitable for miniature and buried antenna characterization without access to its port.

Wideband Patch Antenna with Shorting Vias

A novel patch antenna with three resonant modes is proposed for wideband applications. By introducing the ring slot on the circular patch, the TM02 mode of the smaller circular patch and the TM02 mode of the annular ring can be excited. Also, compared with the traditional circular patch with shorting vias, four components of shorting vias are distributed nonuniformly on the edge of the proposed patch antenna, which can generate another new resonance mode. By merging the three resonant modes, the impedance bandwidth of the antenna is expanded. Meanwhile, the gain of the antenna is enhanced in the wide operating band. The results illustrate that the antenna can operate in the 5.8 GHz ISM band. Its −10 dB impedance bandwidth is from 5.06 to 6.99 GHz, and the relative bandwidth reaches 32%. In addition, the maximum gain of 5.3 dBi is obtained at 6.7 GHz.

Conjoined Yet Decoupled Wideband Multiantenna MIMO Linear Patch Array

A conjoined yet decoupled wideband multi-antenna MIMO linear patch array (LPA) based on using a wideband patch antenna with dual slanted (±45°) shorting metal walls as a building antenna unit (BAU) is presented. The BAU alone can have a very wide operating band of larger than 4 GHz (about 3.25-7.40 GHz, a fractional bandwidth of about 78%). Owing to the antenna’s dual shorting metal walls, it allows arbitrary antenna units to be directly connected in series into a linear patch array with high port isolation (>20 dB) over the very wide band, with no additional decoupling elements required. A four-antenna LPA constructed by using four BAUs is demonstrated. In addition to the high port isolation, the four-antenna LPA can generate four uncorrelated waves with their measured envelope correlation coefficients (ECCs) less than 0.03 over the very wide band almost same as that of the BAU alone. In addition, the proposed MIMO LPA has an all-metal structure, with no substrate materials required. The obtained results make it promising for MIMO access-point application to cover the 5G band of 3.3-5.0 GHz and the unlicensed or mobile band of 5.925-7.125 GHz. Details of the BAU-based wideband multi-antenna MIMO LPA and the experimental results of the four-antenna LPA are presented.

Design of a Compact High Isolation 4-Element Wideband Patch Antenna Array for GNSS Applications

This work presents a compact (125 mm diameter) wideband four-element antenna array with a high isolation level for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) anti-jamming applications. The array consists of four identical right hand circularly polarized (RHCP) single feed rectangular patch antennas that can cover BeiDou B1 band (1559.05 – 1563.15 MHz), GPS L1 band (1563 – 1587 MHz), Galileo E1 band (1559 – 1591 MHz), and GLONASS G1 band (1593 – 1610 MHz). The proposed array has a wide frequency bandwidth of 100 MHz (1.55 – 1.65 GHz) with an axial ratio of less than 3 dB. The patch antenna elements are designed on a substrate that has a high dielectric constant to achieve a compact size. The size of each patch element is only 32 <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 32\times5.08$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sup> . These patches are placed along the circumference of a circular aluminium ground plane of 125 mm diameter and 1.5 mm thickness in a <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2\times 2$ </tex-math></inline-formula> symmetrical arrangement. The edge-to-edge distance between the opposite patch elements is only 48 mm while for the adjacent elements the separation is only 27 mm. A microwave absorber material is employed to achieve an extremely low mutual coupling level over a wide frequency range (1.55 – 1.65 GHz) within a compact form factor. The proposed design achieves a mutual coupling of less than −20 dB within a compact overall form factor of 125 mm diameter over the entire band of interest. The simulated and measured results of reflection coefficient, mutual coupling, null steering, null depth, and radiation pattern show that the proposed antenna array is an excellent choice for multiband GNSS applications.

Efficient Microstrip Antenna system using Reduced GP Structure for Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) Applications

Microstrip antenna is an essential choice for Ultra Wide Band (UWB) applications of its light weight, low profile and easy to form antenna arrays. However, the design of microstrip patch antenna bandwidth is greatly affects by the dielectric substrate material (FR4). In this research, the bandwidth enhancement of MPA was designed by minimizing the dimension of Defected GP (DGP) in GP for Ultra Wide Band wireless applications. But, the antenna design complexity increases with the number of an operating frequency band. In this research, the MPA was designed as small as size of 10×13×1.6 mm and operates on frequency band between 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz for VSWR less than 2. The microstrip patch antenna was designed at 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz using High-Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) software. The simulation result shows that the proposed microstrip patch antenna obtained &lt;-10dB of return loss from 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz throughout the frequency range. The measured result proves that the proposed microstrip patch antenna has better characteristics to fulfill the requirements of UWB applications

Low‐profile wideband patch antenna with pattern diversity using custom‐designed feeding schemes

A low-profile wideband patch antenna with pattern diversity is proposed in this paper. In our design, custom-designed feeding schemes are utilized to substitute for conventional power dividers beneath the ground plane, thus selectively generating the broadside or conical beam and introducing additional resonant modes. Then, by placing two novel feeding schemes orthogonally to realize pattern diversity, a new resonant mode is successfully excited, which fully makes use of the configuration of the two-port antenna. Moreover, for reallocating radiating modes, an array of four shorting pins is introduced to push up the resonant frequency of each first desired resonant mode, which enhances the overlapped impedance bandwidth. Finally, the proposed antenna is designed, fabricated, and measured. The measured results show that the antenna achieves a broad overlapped impedance bandwidth of around 28.5% ranging from 2.11 to 2.81 GHz. Meanwhile, the peak-measured gain is 7.0 dBi for the conical beam and 9.9 dBi for the broadside beam, while an isolation of 23 dB is also realized. Most importantly, novel feeding schemes still maintain the low-profile property of around 0.066 λ0 (λ0 is the free-space wavelength at 2.46 GHz).

Machine learning supervised antenna for software defined cognitive radios

ABSTRACT Software-defined radio (SDR) deals with the opportunistic detection and allocation of the radio frequency (RF) signals in the cognitive radio network (CRN). The opportunistic spectrum use between primary licenced and secondary unlicensed user depends upon the adequate detection of the spectrum hole. This paper presents a design of a smart compact wideband patch antenna for SDR in cognitive radios. The fractal slot antenna with electromagnetic bandgap structure is designed on 12 × 18 mm2 FR4 substrate as a primary perception module in the cognitive radio sensor network. The wide operating range of antenna 0.68–12.1 GHz is highly compatible with adaptive learning of SDR to deal with dynamic spectrum variation over a large bandwidth. The antenna exhibits high radiation efficiency with consideration of tangential losses of FR4 and sustainable gain 2.5 dBi over the complete impedance bandwidth. The proposed five-layered ANN-ML supervised SDR comprises multispectral resolution via coefficient estimation for primary and secondary user and elicits high throughput of proposed antenna during white space spectrum sensing. The data analytics for ANN-ML has modelled on Python 3.0 IDE and the results are validated to justify the candidature of the antenna for wideband sensing as per the Federal Communications Commission standards for CRN.

High-gain low-profile circularly polarized patch antenna for universal RFID reader application

It is known that for a microstrip antenna, if the height of the antenna is strictly limited, then the bandwidth is narrow. A way to solve this problem is to combine two modes. However, for almost all the two-mode resonant patch antennas reported, the height of the antenna conflicts with the frequency ratio of the two modes. The smaller the frequency ratio is, the higher the antenna. In this paper, a detailed mode analysis is performed, and a comprehensive mode shift design method is established. A dual resonant patch antenna with any frequency ratio can be designed. Guided by this method, a low-profile wideband patch antenna with a size of only 0.6λ0 × 0.6λ0 × 0.05λ0 for the universal RFID reader (840-960 MHz) is designed. The simulated and measured results show that a low-profile is achieved for universal RFID reader antennas.

A Comparative Study of UWB Micro-strip Antenna for Wireless Communication and RF Energy Harvesting

Ultra Wide Band (UWB) is first-class famous technology in recent wireless communication since it affords excessive data rates and excellent high-quality offerings. FCC (Federal Communications Commission) opens a 7.5 GHz spectrum (extending 3.1 GHz - 10.6 GHz) in 2002 for wireless ultra-wide band system [1]. With high data rates of wireless communication technology, UWB is increasingly advancing and the micro-strip antenna is also being developed with bandwidths of 1 to 5%. However, within the ultimate decade, UWB has additionally been proposed as a RF energy harvester. The strategies which enhance bandwidth are one of the popular research areas in patch antenna’s field. The bandwidth is generally described as just a percent of the width of the desired frequency range and the resonant antenna frequencies. Other constraint like return loss, efficient radiation and VSWR (voltage standing wave ratio) are also accustomed to describe the bandwidth of a micro-strip antenna. Several things need to be considered into account in choosing an ideal aerial for Ultra-Wide Band including physical structure, performance and frequency band, and radiation quality and emission pattern.The major issue in UWB antenna system is to achieve only the wide bandwidth with high levels of radiation efficiency and compact size. So several method have been extensively investigated for the wide bandwidth of patch antenna and to optimize the qualities of array antenna, as described in various published articles in this survey paper.

High gain and wideband patch antenna with wide 3‐dB axial ratio bandwidth operating at TM 01 and TM 11 modes

High gain and wideband patch antenna with wide 3‐dB axial ratio bandwidth operating at <i>TM</i> ₀₁ and <i>TM</i> ₁₁ modes

Compact wideband patch antenna and its MIMO configuration for 28 GHz applications

This article presents a printed antenna owing the advantages of compact size and simple geometrical configuration for fifth-generation (5G) 28 GHz communication systems. For better performance and miniaturization purposes, both the ground plane and the radiator of the patch antenna are defected with a rectangular slot. The antenna presents a wide operating bandwidth and high radiation efficiency while keeping reasonable gain. Furthermore, two elements Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) configuration of the proposed antenna was designed for MIMO applications. The MIMO antenna is also characterized by a good envelope correlation coefficient (ECC), low Channel Capacity Loss (CCL), and high diversity gain, which proves that the presented antenna can be seamlessly housed in miniaturized 5G smart devices. The proposed work is verified by experiments which are well-matched with predicted results. In comparison with other related works, the presented work is dominant in terms of wide operating bandwidth, high isolation, low ECC, and compact design.

Design, Measurements, and Analysis of Enhanced Bandwidth UWB

Ambient computing enabled for body area networks have received much consideration over the past couple of years due to its applications in biomedical, healthcare monitoring, and military systems. Such systems are attracting users in other applications like gaming, fitness, sports, and other life style tools. The fast-moving lifestyle of people impelled them in a situation of less consideration of their health and sports, and it generated the need of healthcare monitoring and tracking devices. Advances in wireless technology and embedded technology have generated keen interest in antenna, mounted on or around the body to transmit or receive the vital data of human body to on-body or off-body systems. The proposed antenna is for the use in wireless body area network (WBAN), in UWB frequency range 3.1 GHz.-10.6 GHz. Enhanced bandwidth ultra wideband (EB-UWB) patch antenna consists of the dimensions 30 mm×27 mm×1.6 mm. The prototype is fabricated and tested in free space and on-body scenario.

3D Printed Wideband Multilayered Dual-Polarized Stacked Patch Antenna With Integrated MMIC Switch

Capability of 3D printing for developing wideband multilayered antenna systems packaged with active RF circuit components remains relatively unexplored. To address this gap, this manuscript demonstrates wideband patch antenna that is integrated with a polarization selection switch. Antenna bandwidth is enhanced with customized substrate thicknesses and stacked patch layers. Switch is integrated with 3D vertical transitions to achieve wide bandwidth, smaller packaging, and low-loss. To enable future antenna array applications, a detailed investigation is also presented to maximize the performance of the microstrip feed lines by adjusting the substrate thickness and deposition process. The antenna consists of 13 dielectric and conductive layers. Specifically, the manuscript demonstrates the lowest attenuation in the literature for a fully printed microstrip line with 0.25 dB/cm measured loss at 18 GHz. The antenna operates with more than 80% radiation efficiency and 45% bandwidth. The polarization switch is embedded within the antenna structure. The antenna retains a high cross-polarization ratio of ~20 dB due to 3D feed line transitions and symmetric location of the switch with respect to the antenna feeds.

A Theoretical Survey on Patch Antenna for Wideband Communication

Modern communication system is based on wideband communication. A wideband antenna is designed in such a way that it will receive a wide range of frequencies. Microwave frequency spectrum is classified as ranging from 1GHz to 100GHz and this range is divided into a number of frequency bands. These bands are defined as L Band, S Band, C Band, X Band etc. To fulfil the demands of many users patch antenna is designed in these bands. Among different types of antenna, Microstrip Patch Antenna is most popular in wireless communication system. Microstrip patch Antennas have many advantages over other familiar antennas because microstrip patch antennas are of low profile, low cost, low volume, light weight. Low efficiency, low gain and narrow bandwidth of patch antenna create major challenge to a designer. Slots are created on patch for preparing antenna forwideband applications. In this paper, we have surveyed upon various types of Microstrip Patch Antenna, feeding techniques, design equation Substrate Characteristics, Simulation tools etc.

Stably Polarized Wideband Circular Microstrip Antenna Excited in TM12 Mode

One of the major drawbacks of the U-slotted wideband microstrip patch antennas, i.e., the polarization instability at the high-end frequencies, is addressed by utilizing the next broadside TM <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">12</sub> mode in circular patch antennas. The proposed antenna is capable of generating stably polarized waves over a wide frequency range of ~45% (2.05-3.25 GHz), which is not the case with the reported literature on U-slotted wideband patch antennas. The antenna comprises the U-slot and appropriately positioned shorting vias to achieve the desired impedance and radiation characteristics. It is fed by an L-probe and loaded with four non-resonating arc slits to suppress the TM <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">12</sub> mode's E-plane sidelobes, which are very prominent otherwise. The polarization stability of the antenna is demonstrated through the surface current distributions on the patch, radiation patterns, and the x- and y-polarized gain over the frequency range of interest.

A novel design of a compact wideband patch antenna for sub-6 GHz fifth-generation mobile systems

In this paper, a new broadband patch antenna design for fifth-generation (5G) sub-6 GHz mobile systems is presented. The proposed 5G antenna has a very compact size with an overall dimension of 10.7 × 22.5 mm2. The 5G antenna consists of a log-periodic patch in the form of an equilateral triangle with a 50 Ω microstrip line feed and a ground plane of rectangular shape. The prototype of the proposed 5G antenna was made by etching on an FR4 substrate with a 1.6mm thickness, 4.3 dielectric constant and 0.02 tangent loss. The 5G antenna is designed and simulated for the frequency band range of 3.4-4.2 GHz. According to the measurement results, the 5G antenna impedance band range is determined as 3.1-3.9 GHz. Besides, the proposed 5G antenna has also near-omnidirectional radiation patterns both simulation and measurement at the resonance frequencies of 3.8 GHz and 3.5 GHz, respectively. According to these results, the proposed antenna is showed similar radiation characteristics in both measured and simulated results. With all these radiation and physical properties, the proposed log-periodic patch antenna is very suitable for sub-6 GHz 5G mobile applications.

A Wideband and Efficient Patch Antenna with Two Different Feeding Mechanisms for Ku/K Bands Applications

Low BW (Bandwidth) is a major limitation of microstrip antennas. A patch antenna having a large BW for Ku band applications is demonstrated in this manuscript. The skills of Defected Ground Structure (DGS) and defected driven patch were engaged to widen its BW. Four slices have also been confiscated from the ground for upgrading various characteristics. It is established on the basis of this study that it can be employed in spectrum defining and bands. It puts forward an impedance BW of 8GHz, which is appropriate for numerous applications. The ground/substrate of the structure under consideration is 22×10-3m long and 10×103m wide and these specifications imply that the volume of this design is very small. The entire structure’s utmost thickness is 1.67×10-3m. It can be easily installed in relevant handy electronic devices. Investigations and analysis in this case are made with computer software known as Computer Simulation Technology. The simulated design exhibits a very good gain and efficiency. Deviation in the gain of the simulated design was from 4.4 7.3dBi and it guaranteed the highest efficiency of 98.6%. Some minor changes in the antenna resulted in expansion in the BW from 8GHz to 14GHz. The return loss which was recorded at frequency of 18.15GHz went to 48.97dB and the mentioned changes assured the uppermost efficiency of 83.1%. The fabricated antenna achieved a bandwidth of 28GHz which is far better than the simulated bandwidth.