An antenna with small footprint, small volume and full ground plane for UWB systems

Author

Iqbal, M. Safdar ; Yuehe Ge ; Esselle, Karu P.

Author_Institution

Electron. Eng. Dept., Macquarie Univ., North Ryde, NSW, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

22

Abstract

This paper presents the design of an antenna with small footprint, small volume and full ground plane for ultrawideband (UWB) systems. The design consists of two different dielectric segments, which reside above a ground plane, and is excited by a small metallic patch connected to a coaxial probe. The selected dielectric resonator (DR) bandwidth is enhanced by removing some dielectric and forming an air cavity within the structure. The volume of proposed DRA is also reduced by adding a finite planar conducting wall. A full ground plane is used to ensure that most of the power radiates to upper hemisphere. The proposed DRA with good radiation characteristics offers a simulated bandwidth of 68% between 4.6 and 9.3 GHz with |S₁₁| <; -10 dB.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; conducting materials; dielectric resonator antennas; microstrip antennas; ultra wideband antennas; DR bandwidth; DRA; UWB antenna system; air cavity formation; bandwidth 4.6 GHz to 9.3 GHz; coaxial probe; dielectric resonator antenna; finite planar conducting wall; ground plane; small metallic patch antenna; ultrawideband antenna system; upper hemisphere radiation; Bandwidth; Dielectric resonator antennas; Dielectrics; Probes; Ultra wideband antennas; Dielectric constant; Dielectric substrates; Q factor; ultra wideband antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

ISSN

2162-6588

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2013.6663815

Filename

6663815