Enhancing Bandwidth of Circularly Polarized DRA Using Embedded Slot-Coupled Patch

Abstract

This paper proposes a bandwidth enhancement technique for circularly polarized (CP) dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) using the embedded slot-coupled patch. The proposed CP DRA for mid-band 5G applications consisted of an aperture-coupled feed, a dice-shaped dielectric resonator (DR), and an embedded slot-coupled patch. A slot-coupled feed included cross-aperture ground plane (upper substrate) and microstrip-line feed (lower substrate). The dice-shaped DR sits at the center of the cross-aperture ground plane. The slot-coupled patch was embedded into DR for bandwidth enhancement. The DR usually functioned as a resonance cavity, producing TEll1 mode. The embedded slot-coupled patch can generate the resonance frequency mode (TM01 and TMl0) at a higher frequency, resulting in a wide reflection coefficient bandwidth and ARBW. The results of simulation reflection coefficient bandwidth and ARBW at center frequency (3.5 GHz) achieved 44% (3.12 – 4.66 GHz) and 36.57% (3.23 – 4.51 GHz). The peak RHCP gain was 8.7 dBic at 4.5 GHz with right-hand circular polarization, rendering the proposed CP DRA with embedded slot-coupled patch suitable for mid-band 5G wireless networks.