Wideband Wide-Beam Hybrid Dielectric Resonator Antenna Using Uniaxial Material

In this letter, a wideband wide-beam rectangular di-electric resonator antenna (DRA) employing uniaxial anisotropic material is presented. To the best knowledge of the authors, the uniaxial anisotropic dielectric is used in wide-beam DRAs for the first time. By tuning the uniaxial permittivity tensor of the rectangular dielectric, the radiation from the top wall of the DRA is enhanced which improves the gain at low elevation angle in the E-plane. Both the feed slot mode and the fundamental TE(111 )(y)mode are merged to broaden the bandwidth. When a grounded substrate is added and four trapezoidal notches are etched on the ground, the half-power beamwidth (HPBW) in the H-plane is broadened. The measured results achieve an impedance bandwidth of 35.7% over a band of 2.65-3.8 GHz with HPBWs of at least 250 degrees and 162 degrees in the E-and H-planes, respectively.

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This letter presents a wideband wide-beam rectangular di-electric resonator antenna (DRA) using uniaxial anisotropic material for the first time. By tuning the uniaxial permittivity tensor, the radiation from the top wall of the DRA is enhanced and the gain at low elevation angle in the E-plane is improved. The bandwidth is broadened by merging the feed slot mode and the fundamental TE(111)(y) mode. The addition of a grounded substrate and trapezoidal notches on the ground broadens the half-power beamwidth (HPBW) in the H-plane. The measured results show an impedance bandwidth of 35.7% over a band of 2.65-3.8 GHz with HPBWs of at least 250 degrees and 162 degrees in the E-and H-planes, respectively.