A compact wideband dielectric resonator antenna with optimized inhomogeneous material distribution

Abstract This article proposes a novel compact wideband dielectric resonator antenna design that incorporates inhomogeneous material distribution in a cubic structure. Specifically, in this design, the cubic dielectric resonator antenna is divided into multiple small blocks, and a continuous genetic...

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Main Authors: Trupti Bellundagi, Binbin Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2024-12-01
Series:Electronics Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70107
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Summary:Abstract This article proposes a novel compact wideband dielectric resonator antenna design that incorporates inhomogeneous material distribution in a cubic structure. Specifically, in this design, the cubic dielectric resonator antenna is divided into multiple small blocks, and a continuous genetic algorithm is employed to optimize the material property of each block in order to maximize the radiation bandwidth. As a result, a cubic dielectric resonator antenna with inhomogeneous material distributions is designed and tested. In measurement, the proposed compact dielectric resonator antenna design exhibits 64.9% impedance bandwidth (4.08–8 GHz), considerably higher than the bandwidth of the initial homogeneous dielectric resonator antenna. The maximum system gain achieved over the frequency range is 9 dB at 7 GHz, with a peak measured system efficiency of 90.6%.
ISSN:0013-5194
1350-911X