Parabolic reflector fed by Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna with high gain

Author

Ali, Shaima Mohammed ; Zakariya, M.A. ; Baharudin, Z. ; Adz, J.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. Teknol. PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A single element circular slot aperture coupled Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna (CDRA) with a parabolic reflector is simulated and presented. The measured bandwidth of the single element CDRA is about 1.8 % (5.32 - 5.52) while the simulated bandwidth is 1.11% (5.32 - 5.44 GHz). A comprehensive parametric study has been conducted to realize the effects of reflector parameters to increase the directivity of the designed antenna. The simulation of the antenna with parabolic reflector shows that it can enhance the gain about 240% as compared to the single element CDRA without reflector. The experimental results show that the antenna covers 5 GHz band, which satisfies the basic requirement of the WLAN application IEEE 802.11a.

Keywords

aperture-coupled antennas; dielectric resonator antennas; microwave antennas; reflector antenna feeds; wireless LAN; WLAN application 802.11a; comprehensive parametric study; cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna bandwidth; frequency 5 GHz; parabolic reflector parameters; single element circular slot aperture coupled CDRA feed; Antenna feeds; Dielectric resonator antennas; Dielectrics; Microwave antennas; Reflector antennas; Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna (CDRA); aperture coupling; parabolic reflector;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent and Advanced Systems (ICIAS), 2014 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4654-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIAS.2014.6869502

Filename

6869502