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MAO Xiaohui, LU Wenjun, JI Feiyan, et al., “Dual Radial-Resonant Wide Beamwidth Circular Sector Microstrip Patch Antennas,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 710-719, 2023, doi: 10.23919/cje.2021.00.219
Citation: MAO Xiaohui, LU Wenjun, JI Feiyan, et al., “Dual Radial-Resonant Wide Beamwidth Circular Sector Microstrip Patch Antennas,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 710-719, 2023, doi: 10.23919/cje.2021.00.219

Dual Radial-Resonant Wide Beamwidth Circular Sector Microstrip Patch Antennas

doi: 10.23919/cje.2021.00.219
Funds:  This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61871233), the Research Project of Key Laboratory of Wireless Sensor Network & Communication, the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (20200604), and the Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (KYCX20_0808)
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    Xiaohui MAO was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China, in 1995. She received the B.E. degree in network engineering from Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2018. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China. Her recent research interests include the microstrip antennas theory and design approach. (Email: 2021010101@njupt.edu.cn)

    Wenjun LU (corresponding author) was born in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, China, in 1978. He received Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, China, in 2007. He has been a Professor with the Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Wireless Communications, NUPT, since 2013. His research interests include antenna theory, antenna design, antenna arrays, and wireless propagation channel modelling. From 2015 to 2016, he invented the design approach to planar endfire circularly polarized antennas. Recently, he has rediscovered the concept of 1-D multi-mode resonant dipoles and advanced the multi-mode resonant design approach to elementary antennas. He is the translator of the Chinese version The Art and Science of Ultrawideband Antennas (by H. Schantz). He has authored two books, Antennas: Concise Theory, Design and Applications (in Chinese, 2014), and its 2nd edition of Concise Antennas (in Chinese, 2020). He has authored or co-authored over 200 technical papers published in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings. He was a recipient of the Exceptional Reviewers Award of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in 2016 and 2020, and the Outstanding Reviewers Award of the AEÜ: Int. J. of Electronics and Communications in 2018. He has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering since 2014, and an Associate Editor of the Electronics Letters since 2019. He’s a Committee Member of the Antennas Society of Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE). He’s a Senior Member of the CIE and the IEEE. (Email: wjlu@njupt.edu.cn)

    Feiyan JI was born in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China, in 1997. She received the B.E. degree in communication engineering from Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, in 2019. She is currently pursuing the M.E. degree with the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China. Her recent research interests include the complementary antennas theory and design approach. (Email: 1019010127@njupt.edu.cn)

    Xiuqiong XING was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, in 1994. She received the B.S. degree in electronics and information engineering from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, in 2017. Currently, she is working toward the M.E. degree in Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China. Her recent research interests include the microtrip antennas theory and design approach. (Email: 1219012407@njupt.edu.cn)

    Lei ZHU received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in radio engineering from the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University), Nanjing, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, in 1993. From 1993 to 1996, he was a Research Engineer with Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. From 1996 to 2000, he was a Research Fellow with the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. From 2000 to 2013, he was an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He joined the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, China, as a Full Professor in August 2013, and has been a Distinguished Professor since December 2016. From August 2014 to August 2017, he served as the Head of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Macau. So far, he has authored or coauthored more than 700 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. His papers have been cited more than 12,500 times with the H-index of 55 (source: Scopus). His research interests include microwave circuits, antennas, periodic structures, and computational electromagnetics. Dr. Zhu was the Associate Editors for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (2010–2013) and IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (2006–2012). He served as a General Chair of the 2008 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on the Art of Miniaturizing RF and Microwave Passive Components, Chengdu, China, and a Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the 2009 Asia–Pacific Microwave Conference, Singapore. He served as the Member of IEEE MTT-S Fellow Evaluation Committee (2013–2015), and as the Member of IEEE AP-S Fellows Committee (2015–2017). He was the recipient of the 1997 Asia–Pacific Microwave Prize Award, the 1996 Silver Award of Excellent Invention from Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries Ltd., the 1993 Achievement Award in Science and Technology (first prize) from the National Education Committee of China, the 2020 FST Research Excellence Award from the University of Macau, and the 2020 Macao Natural Science Award (second prize) from the Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT), Macau. He is the Fellow of IEEE. (Email: LeiZhu@um.edu.mo)

  • Received Date: 2021-06-25
  • Accepted Date: 2022-03-20
  • Available Online: 2022-04-20
  • Publish Date: 2023-07-05
  • In this article, a design approach to a radial-resonant wide beamwidth circular sector patch antenna is advanced. As properly evolved from a U-shaped dipole, a prototype magnetic dipole can be fit in the radial direction of a circular sector patch radiator, with its length set as the positive odd-integer multiples of one-quarter wavelength. In this way, multiple ${\boldsymbol{{\bf{TM}}_{0m}(m=1,}}$${\boldsymbol{2,...)}}$ modes resonant circular sector patch antenna with short-circuited circumference and widened E-plane beamwidth can be realized by proper excitation and perturbations. Prototype antennas are then designed and fabricated to validate the design approach. Experimental results reveal that the E-plane beamwidth of a dual-resonant antenna fabricated on air/Teflon substrate can be effectively broadened to 128°/120°, with an impedance bandwidth of 17.4%/7.1%, respectively. In both cases, the antenna heights are strictly limited to no more than 0.03-guided wavelength. It is evidently validated that the proposed approach can effectively enhance the operational bandwidth and beamwidth of a microstrip patch antenna while maintaining its inherent low profile merit.
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