Performance enhancement of dielectric resonator antenna by using cross-resonator based filtering feed-network

• Published in: International journal of electronics and communications 2020-02, Vol.114, p.152989, Article 152989
• Main Authors: Ballav, Suparna, Parui, Susanta Kumar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Broadside radiation; Cross resonator; DRA; Filtering; Radiation null; Transmission pole; Wide band
• ISSN: 1434-8411; 1618-0399
• DOI: 10.1016/j.aeue.2019.152989

A wideband filtering dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is demonstrated in this paper. The filtering characteristics is obtained by integrating a triple pole cross-resonator filter in the feed line of the slot coupled rectangular DRA. The transmission poles of the resonator are adjusted in order to get the wideband filtering response. The proposed filtering DRA offers an impedance bandwidth of 15% from 3.06 GHz to 3.56 GHz. Electric field distribution of DRA within the passband confirmed that the rectangular DRA drives in TE111 mode which ensured the broadside radiation. A satisfactory stable gain pattern of 5.9 ± 0.3 dBi within the pass-band has been achieved. The gain response falls sharply with two radiation-nulls beyond the passband at 3.9 GHz and 4.4 GHz and that increases the selectivity of the antenna. In conclusion, proposed design offers a robust technique to convert a conventional slot coupled rectangular DRA into a wideband antenna along with frequency selective gain response. Proposed configuration manifests as an ideal contender for some specific uses in S-band such as Wi-Max, TD-LTE (Time-Division Long Term Evaluation) application as it avoids the interference adjacent bands.