Wideband dielectric resonator monopole antenna

• US 7,619,564 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2006
• Issued: 11/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: National Taiwan University (Government of The Republic of China)
• Original Assignee: National Taiwan University (Government of The Republic of China)
• Inventors: Kiang, Jean-Fu, Chang, Tze-Hsuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Wimer; Michael C
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCCAIN, KYANA RASHAWN
• Application Number:
  US11/466,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20080048915A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,182 Days
• Field of Search: 343/767, 343/770
• US Class Current: 343/700.0MS
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/28 Combinations of substantially independent non-interacting antenna units or systems multiple beam H01Q25/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0485 Dielectric resonator antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/40 Element having extended radiating surface

Abstract

A wideband dielectric resonator monopole antenna, which includes a dielectric resonator and a monopole antenna, combines two frequency bands having close resonant frequencies to achieve 49% of bandwidth and omnidirectional radiation patterns within the frequency band. It includes a column structure and a substrate, wherein the surface of the column structure is coated with a conductive layer, the column structure is kept upright to the substrate, and the substrate is coated or printed with two slot lines extended inward from an edge of the substrate.

Claims

1. A wideband dielectric resonator monopole antenna, comprising:

a resonator having a column structure with an exterior surface, a conductive material coated on part of said exterior surface, and a connector extending downwards from the coated part of said exterior surface to a bottom end of said column structure; and

a feed-in/feed-out component composed of a wire pattern formed by coating or printing a conductive material on a substrate, said wire pattern having a grounding part formed with the conductive material of said wire pattern, and two parallel slot lines and two open-circuited slot lines formed without the conductive material of said wire pattern;

wherein each said open-circuited slot line is extended perpendicularly from an end of one said parallel slot line towards the other said parallel slot line with said two open-circuited slot lines located between said two parallel slot lines and separated by the conductive material of said wire pattern, and said resonator is disposed above said two open-circuited slot lines with said connector connected to said grounding part of said wire pattern.

2. The antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein said connector of said resonator is connected to said grounding part of said wire pattern between said two parallel slot lines.

3. The antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein said substrate is made of a dielectric material selected from the group consisting of FR4, Teflon, Duriod, fiberglass, aluminum oxide, and ceramic materials.

4. The antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein said resonator has a resonant frequency determined by area of the coated part of said exterior surface.

5. The antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein impedance matching of said feed-in/feed-out component is determined by length and width of each said open-circuited slot line.

6. The antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein the length of each said open-circuited slot line is less than the distance between said two parallel slot lines, and the width of each said open-circuited slot line is substantially identical to the width of each said parallel slot line.

7. The antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein impedance matching and operating frequency of said antenna are determined by dimensions of said resonator and each said open-circuited slot line.

8. The antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein said resonator is a rectangular column.

9. The antenna as claimed in claim 8, wherein the coated part of said exterior surface includes three adjacent surfaces of said rectangular column.

10. The antenna as claimed in claim 8, wherein a distance from said two open-circuited slot lines to a backside of said rectangular column is in the range of one-seventh to one-sixth of the width of said rectangular column.