Design of a Compact, Low-Profile, Differentially-Fed, Filtering Antenna for Diplexer Applications

Publisher:
IEEE
Publication Type:
Conference Proceeding
Citation:
IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetics: Applications and Student Innovation Competition, iWEM 2021 - Proceedings, 2022, volume1, pp. 1-3
Issue Date:
2022-01-01
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The prototype of differentially-fed filtering antenna (DFFA) with compact size and low profile for diplexer applications is studied and reported. Two split ring resonators (SRRs) with half-wavelength are served as the first order resonator to introduce the two operating frequency bands. A dual-mode radiation patch working in both its fundamental mode and a radiation-pattern-engineered third-order mode is utilized as the second order resonator to enhance those two passbands and, meanwhile, decreases the overall antenna size. Then, a second-order Chebyshev filtering response with two passbands is obtained. Importantly, an excitation with differential mode (DM) is exploited to reach the minimization of noise levels of both the harmonic and common mode (CM). The optimized simulation prototype of DFFA was manufactured and experimented. The values, in good accordance with the simulated ones, reveal the fractional bandwidths of 2.4% and 5.2%, and highest radiation gains of 5.45 and 8.5 dBi, respectively, corresponding to its lower and upper bands. Moreover, a flat gain with good stop-band skit was realized in two bands, while even the developed DFFA reaches an ultra-low profile, 0.017 ?0, and a small physical volume, $0.003 \lambda_{0}{}^{3}$.
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