Dielectric Resonator Antennas: Materials, Designs and Applications

✍ Scribed by Zhijiao Chen, Jing-Ya Deng, Haiwen Liu

• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Dielectric Resonator Antennas

A detailed guide to dielectric-based techniques for antenna array design and construction

Dielectric designs, which transmit electricity without conducting it, have in recent decades been increasingly incorporated into antenna arrays. The resulting Dielectric Resonator Antennas (DRAs) provide significant benefits over metal antennas, avoiding conduction loss and increasing efficiency. Dielectric elements can also be incorporated into metal antennas to improve performance.

Dielectric Resonator Antennas provides an introduction to dielectric-based techniques for manufacturing antenna arrays. It supplies guidelines for identifying dielectric antenna designs (as opposed to metal ones), describes recent developments in dielectric antenna technology, and points toward potential areas of future growth and development.

Readers will also find:

• Cutting-edge DRA applications in microwave and millimeter-wave communications
• Detailed discussion of array types including wideband, high-gain, high efficiency, and more
• Instructions for fabricating dielectric antenna arrays and assessing tolerance levels

Dielectric Resonator Antennas is ideal for researchers and students in electrical engineering, as well as for engineers and others working in wireless communications.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About the Authors
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Motivation
1.2 Background
1.3 Chapter Overview
Chapter 2 Classifications on Dielectric Resonator Antenna
2.1 Overview
2.2 Dielectric Antenna Classifications
2.3 Dielectric Material Classifications
2.3.1 Sintered Ceramics
2.3.1.1 High-Temperature Co-fired Ceramics
2.3.1.2 Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramics
2.3.1.3 Ultralow-Temperature Co-fired Ceramics
2.3.2 Organic Dielectric Material
2.3.3 Tunable Dielectric Material
2.3.3.1 Liquid
2.3.3.2 Piezodielectric Materials
2.3.4 3D Printing Material
2.3.4.1 3D Printed Polymer
2.3.4.2 3D Printed Ceramic
2.3.4.3 Metal
2.4 Summary
References
Chapter 3 Stacked Dielectric Resonator Antenna
3.1 Overview
3.2 Analysis Methods for Stacked DRA
3.2.1 Equivalent Circuit Method
3.2.2 Approximate Magnetic Boundary
3.2.3 Effective Dielectric Constant
3.2.4 Characteristic Mode Theory
3.3 Stacked Wideband DRA Designs
3.3.1 Antenna Design
3.3.1.1 Wideband Dual-Polarized DRA (WBDP-DRA) Design
3.3.1.2 Dual-Band Dual-Polarized DRA (DBDP-DRA) Design
3.3.1.3 Dual-Band Circular-Polarized DRA (DBCP-DRA) Design
3.3.1.4 Pattern Reconfigurable Dual-Polarized DRA (PRDP-DRA) Design
3.3.2 Working Principle
3.3.3 Fabrication and Measurement
3.3.3.1 Wideband Dual-Polarized DRA (WBDP-DRA)
3.3.3.2 Dual-Band Dual-Polarized DRA (DBDP-DRA)
3.3.3.3 Dual-Band Circular-Polarized DRA (DBCP-DRA)
3.3.3.4 Pattern Reconfigurable Dual-Polarized DRA (PRDP-DRA)
3.4 Stacked DRA with Passive Beam Steering
3.4.1 Antenna Design
3.4.2 Working Principle
3.4.3 Fabrication and Measurement
3.5 Summary
References
Chapter 4 Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array
4.1 Overview
4.2 Pattern Diverse DRA
4.2.1 Antenna Configuration
4.2.2 Mechanism
4.3 DRA Array with Wide-Angle Beam Scanning
4.3.1 Fundamentals on Antenna Array
4.3.2 Pattern Diverse Antenna Array
4.4 DRA Array for Shaped Beam Synthesis
4.4.1 Problem Formulation
4.4.2 Algorithm Selection
4.4.3 Array Pattern Verifications
4.5 Summary
References
Chapter 5 MIMO DRA with Improved Isolation
5.1 Overview
5.2 MIMO DRA Research Trends and Classifications
5.2.1 Compact Antenna Array Design with Direct Decoupling
5.2.2 Co-design on DRA Field and Circuit
5.2.3 Multi-port/Multi-mode DRA Design
5.3 High-Isolated MIMO DRA Design
5.4 Summary
References
Chapter 6 3D Printed Dielectric-Based Antenna
6.1 Overview
6.2 3D Printed Antenna
6.2.1 Vat Photopolymerization
6.2.2 Material Jetting
6.2.3 Binder Jetting
6.2.4 Powder Bed Fusion
6.2.5 Material Extrusion
6.3 3D Printed Antennas with Complementary Structure
6.3.1 3D Printed Air-Filled Metallic Waveguide Antenna (AFMWA)
6.3.2 3D Printed Dielectric Loaded Antenna (DLA)
6.3.3 Comparison of Two Antennas
6.4 3D Printed Finger Nail Antennas
6.4.1 Microwave Removable Nail Antenna
6.4.2 mmWave Nail Antenna
6.5 Summary
References
Chapter 7 Millimeter-Wave DRA and Array
7.1 Overview
7.2 mm-Wave DRA for UAV Satellite
7.2.1 Background
7.2.2 DRA Design and Working Principle
7.2.3 Results and Comparison
7.3 SIW Feeding Network for Antenna Array
7.3.1 SIW Working Principle
7.3.2 SIW Power Dividers
7.3.3 Waveguide to SIW Transition
7.4 mm-Wave DRA Array for Base Station
7.4.1 Background
7.4.2 Working Principle
7.4.3 DRA Array Design
7.4.4 Results and Comparison
7.5 Summary
References
Chapter 8 Duplex Filtering DRA
8.1 Overview
8.2 Filtering Antenna
8.2.1 Filtering Antenna Classifications
8.2.2 Filtering DRA
8.3 Diplexer and Duplexer
8.3.1 Diplexer
8.3.2 Duplexer
8.4 Duplex Filtering DRA Designs
8.4.1 Wideband High-Gain Filtering DRA
8.4.2 Differentially Fed Duplex Filtering DRA
8.5 Summary
References
Chapter 9 Conclusion and Future Work
9.1 Overall Summary
9.2 Recommendations for Future Work
Appendix A Modes in Rectangular DRA
References
Appendix B Modes in Cylindrical DRA
References
Appendix C Modes in Hemispherical DRA
References
Appendix D Modes in Stacked DRA
References
Appendix E Modes in Irregular DRAs
References
Index
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