Miniaturized, Shared Electric and Magnetic Dipole, Pattern Diversity IoT Antenna for Sub-6 GHz Applications

WANG Zhan; DONG Yuandan

doi:10.23919/cje.2023.00.058

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Zhan WANG and Yuandan DONG, “Miniaturized, Shared Electric and Magnetic Dipole, Pattern Diversity IoT Antenna for Sub-6 GHz Applications,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 1–11, 2024 doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.058

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Zhan WANG and Yuandan DONG, “Miniaturized, Shared Electric and Magnetic Dipole, Pattern Diversity IoT Antenna for Sub-6 GHz Applications,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 1–11, 2024 doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.058

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Miniaturized, Shared Electric and Magnetic Dipole, Pattern Diversity IoT Antenna for Sub-6 GHz Applications

doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.058

WANG Zhan,
DONG Yuandan^,

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University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China

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Zhan WANG received the B.S. degree in electrical & information engineering from the South West Jiao Tong University (SWJTU), Chengdu, China, in 2018, and he is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in the University of Electric Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China. His research interests include miniaturized antennas and microwave devices, especially, metamaterial-based antennas and reconfigurable antennas. He has published more than 60 papers and 7 patents, including 24 papers on IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation. He has also received multiple awards including multiple times of National Scholarship, and the gold medal in the 7 “Internet Plus” worldwide Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. He is serving as a reviewer for many international journals, including IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation. He was awarded the prestigious 2022 IEEE AP-S Fellowship and the 2022 IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Grant Award. (Email: zhanwang7323@163.com)

Yuandan DONG received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2012. From September 2008 to June 2012, he was a Graduate Student Researcher with the Microwave Electronics Laboratory, UCLA. From September 2012 to February 2016, he was working as a Senior Engineer with the Research and Development Hardware Department, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, USA. From February 2016 to December 2017, he was working as a Staff Engineer with Universal Electronics Inc., Santa Ana, CA, USA. Since December 2017, he has been a Full Professor with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China. He has authored or coauthored more than 280 journal articles and conference papers, which receive more than 6000 citations. He has been listed as an Elsevier highly cited researcher. He holds more than 100 patents including six international patents. He and his team have developed multiple RF products including acoustic wave filters, antenna tuners, and antennas, which are very widely shipped and applied in mobile devices. His research interests include the characterization and development of RF and microwave components, antennas, RF frontend modules, circuits, acoustic-wave filters, and metamaterials. Dr. Dong was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award from 2010 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) held in Yokohama, Japan, the Best Paper Award in 2021 and 2023 IEEE International Wireless Symposium (IWS), the Distinguished Expert Presented by Sichuan Province and by the national government, respectively, and the High Level Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talent presented by Jiangsu Province. He has been a TPC member for several international conferences. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION since 2021. And he has served as a guest editor for IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION. He is also serving as a Reviewer for multiple IEEE and IET journals including the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION. (Email: ydong@uestc.edu.cn)
Corresponding author: Email: ydong@uestc.edu.cn
Received Date: 2022-10-16
Accepted Date: 2023-09-01

Available Online: 2023-11-21

Abstract

Abstract

By using a novel meta-resonator structure, a miniaturized, surface mountable, shared aperture, and hybrid electric/magnetic dipole pattern diversity antenna is proposed for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. By exploring the shared electric (E-dipole) and magnetic dipole (M-dipole) structures, a novel T-shaped split-ring resonator (SRR) with even and odd modes is presented and studied by current distributions and equivalent circuits. Broadside and omnidirectional (monopole-like) patterns are achieved by exciting the M-dipole and E-dipole modes of the T-shaped SRR, respectively. To validate the proposed design, this shared aperture metamaterial-inspired pattern diversity antenna with a small size of 0.29 λ₀ × 0.006 λ₀ × 0.11 λ₀ is fabricated and measured. The measured overlapped -10 dB bandwidth is from 3.40 to 3.63 GHz (7.0 %, covering the LTE B42 band) and the port isolation is greater than 23 dB. Both two modes achieve a good radiation efficiency better than -0.79 dB (> 83.0 %).
- Electric/magnetic dipoles,
- Internet of Things (IoT),
- metamaterial-based/inspired antenna,
- miniaturized antenna,
- pattern diversity antenna

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