Compact wideband rectangular dielectric resonator antenna with slots and air gaps for C-band applications

Author

Kumar, Jitendra ; Gupta, Navneet

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Birla Inst. of Technol. & Sci., Pilani, India

fYear

2014

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An approach to improve the bandwidth and gain of Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) using air gap slots are presented. Air gap slots can be used to widen the DRA bandwidth or to tune the DRA frequency. This new structure offers a good impedance bandwidth and wide-band DRA. In addition, the projected antenna has a quite higher and more stable gain than that of reference antenna. The characteristics of the antenna are analysis using CST Microwave Studio™ in terms of reflection coefficient, gain and impedance bandwidth and are compared with the computational value. It is observed that the new proposed configuration reduces the DRA volume by 25% and at the same time enhances the gain up to 7.2dB and bandwidth significantly up to 31% with slot cut in DR. The proposed antenna is considered as a good candidate for wideband wireless communication systems.

Keywords

broadband antennas; dielectric resonator antennas; microwave antennas; C-band applications; CST Microwave Studio; DRA bandwidth; DRA volume; air gap slots; compact wideband rectangular dielectric resonator antenna; reflection coefficient; wideband wireless communication systems; Bandwidth; Dielectric resonator antennas; Dielectrics; Impedance; Microwave antennas; Resonant frequency; Slot antennas; Bandwidth Enhancement; Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA); High Gain; Slot-Technique;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), 2014 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gwalior

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6499-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIINFS.2014.7036547

Filename

7036547