Wideband Millimeter Wave Antenna with Cavity Backed Slotted Patch and Magneto-Electric Dipole

CHENG Yang; DONG Yuandan

doi:10.23919/cje.2023.00.064

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Yang CHENG and Yuandan DONG, “Wideband Millimeter Wave Antenna with Cavity Backed Slotted Patch and Magneto-Electric Dipole,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. x, no. x, pp. 1–13, xxxx doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.064

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Yang CHENG and Yuandan DONG, “Wideband Millimeter Wave Antenna with Cavity Backed Slotted Patch and Magneto-Electric Dipole,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. x, no. x, pp. 1–13, xxxx doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.064

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Wideband Millimeter Wave Antenna with Cavity Backed Slotted Patch and Magneto-Electric Dipole

doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.064

CHENG Yang,
DONG Yuandan^,

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University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu 611731, China

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Yang CHENG received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2019, 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, planar antennas and microwave devices for handset and base station applications. He has published more than 20 journal and conference papers, also holds several patents. He is serving as a reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation. (Email: 18482228792@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 300 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: 2023-03-22
Accepted Date: 2023-12-12

Available Online: 2024-02-24

Abstract

Abstract

This paper proposes a wideband cavity-backed slotted patch antenna, loaded with a magneto-electric (ME) dipole and fed by a microstrip line, for millimeter wave (mm-Wave) applications. The coupled-feed cavity-backed slotted patch antenna is loaded with the ME-dipole. The slotted patch antenna serves both as a radiator and a ground for the ME-dipole. The combination of the ME-dipole antenna and the slotted patch antenna realizes a -10dB impedance bandwidth covering over 22.86-44.35GHz (63.9%). The pattern of the antenna element remains stable throughout this bandwidth. The proposed broadband antenna unit not only realizes single linearly polarized (LP) radiation but also can be designed for dual-LP radiation. The dual-polarized radiation can be achieved by changing the slot of the patch antenna to a crossed slot and altering the ME-dipole antenna to a dual-polarization form. A 2×2 dual-polarized array has been designed, fabricated, and tested. A novel dual-polarized feeding network is proposed. To achieve higher isolation, broadband in-phase feed and differential feed are adopted, respectively. A low-loss single to the differential structure is proposed for differential feeding. The simulated isolation of the array is higher than 40 dB. Measured results show that the dual-polarized 2×2 array has an overlapping bandwidth of 52.3% (|S₁₁|<−10 dB and |S₂₁|<−30 dB) with a peak gain of 14 dBi. The proposed antenna, featuring a wide overall bandwidth, low cost, and good radiation performance, is well suited for mm-Wave applications.
- Array antenna,
- Dual-polarized antenna,
- Feeding Network,
- ME-dipole,
- Millimeter-wave (mm-Wave),
- Patch

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