A new shaped circularly polarized dielectric resonator antenna (CP DRA) is studied with branch-line coupler and log-periodic balun for the GPS application. Since the coupler and balun are located under the DRA, it does not increase the footprint of the antenna, as a result the system is very compact. Two configurations are considered in this paper. In the first configuration, an external 50Ω lo...

Suitably shaped metal nanostructures acts as resonant optical antennas that efficiently collect light an confine it to a sub wavelength volume which has been modified by using the dielectric resonators working at optical frequencies. In radio frequencies and microwaves a category of antenna known as dielectric resonator antenna (DRA), whose radiant element is dielectric resonator (DR). In this ...

A novel half Hemispherical Dielectric Resonator Antenna (HDRA) with an array of slots has been designed. The dielectric material used is Rogers TMM10, which is a ceramic thermoset polymer composite material having a dielectric constant of εr = 9.2. Periodic holes lower down the Q factor of the antenna and hence enhance the impedance bandwidth. The measured value of the 10 dB bandwidth is close ...

The Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) is one of the efficient radiator which is used to achieve broadband and cost effective communication in wireless technology. The Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) technology is the most assuring structure for implementation of circuits and components for millimeter wave and microwave applications. A design approach to improve the impedance bandwidth of ...

A novel wideband rectangular dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is proposed in this paper. A hybrid structure with an isolated dielectric resonator (DR) and an equivalent air-dielectric DR is introduced by lifting the resonator from the ground plane. The hybrid structure is excited by a slot-fed mechanism to obtain a smooth transition between each resonant mode. The resonant modes of the isolat...

A frequency tunable ring dielectric resonator antenna is presented in the paper. Advantages of the proposed antenna design are the wide range of adjustments and increasing of the radiation efficiency. The basic antenna characteristics, and also analysis of dependencies of the antenna’s central operating frequency, voltage standing wave ratio and radiation pattern versus the relative position of...

This paper presents the design of a dual band rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) coupled to narrow slot aperture that is fed by microstrip line. The fundamental TE111 mode and higher-order TE113 mode are excited with their resonant frequencies respectively. These frequencies can be controlled by changing the DRA dimensions. A dielectric resonator with high permittivity is used to mi...

A vertical-strip-fed dielectric resonator antenna exhibiting broadband circular polarization characteristics is presented. A broad 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) is achieved by combining multiple orthogonal modes due to the use of a special-shaped dielectric resonator. The proposed antenna is fabricated to evaluate its actual performance capabilities. The antenna exhibits a measured 3 dB ARB...

A Dielectric Resonator loaded Substrate integrated waveguide cavity backed slot antenna (SIDRA) is proposed for two slot polarizations and orientation. A SIW-fed cylindrical DRA using rectangular slot is used for obtaining bandwidth of about 5% at 6.15 GHz. For enhancing bandwidth, a plus shaped slot with bandwidth of about 8.80% and gain of 3.7 dB is proposed. The proposed antenna represents S...

A new design of Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) for mobile handsets is presented: the off-centre ring dielectric resonator antenna (OCRDRA). This achieved 15.9% impedance bandwidth (for S11 < -10 dB) by using high dielectric constant material (εr = 77) with coaxial probe feed. The geometry of the antenna is small, having key dimensions of the order of λo/10. Different inner diameters were te...