Hybrid dielectric resonator antenna for ultra high frequency band

A hybrid Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) design using the concept of the Dielectric-Resonator-on-Patch (DRoP) is presented in this thesis. This design is introduced to overcome the narrow bandwidth and big size drawbacks experienced by the antennas in the UHF band applications. The hybrid DRA has...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Abdul Sukur, Muhammad Ishak
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/54593/1/MuhammadIshakAbdulSukurMFKE2015.pdf
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

id	my-utm-ep.54593
record_format	uketd_dc
spelling	my-utm-ep.545932020-10-20T02:32:00Z Hybrid dielectric resonator antenna for ultra high frequency band 2015-10 Abdul Sukur, Muhammad Ishak TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering A hybrid Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) design using the concept of the Dielectric-Resonator-on-Patch (DRoP) is presented in this thesis. This design is introduced to overcome the narrow bandwidth and big size drawbacks experienced by the antennas in the UHF band applications. The hybrid DRA has the ability to provide wide bandwidth while maintaining its compact structure. Firstly, two antenna designs which are the aperture-coupled square microstrip patch antenna (RMPA) and dielectric resonator antenna (RDRA) are presented to investigate the characteristic of the antennas individually. Two different aperture shapes, rectangular and circular are used to clarify the difference between them. Then, both antennas are combined together into the hybrid DRA structure. All three antennas are designed and optimized using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) microwave studio software and the Taconic RF-35 is used as the substrate for the prototype fabrication. The antenna performances such as the reflection coefficient magnitude (S11), bandwidth, radiation pattern and gain are measured. In the RMPA design, both configurations managed to obtain a compact size, with a reduction of more than 25% compared to the reference antenna. On the other hand, by maintaining the size of the DRA at 7cm × 7cm × 1.4cm, a wide bandwidth of around 30% is recorded using the circular aperture in the RDRA design. The hybrid DRA combined both RMPA and RDRA, resulting in wider bandwidth of 60%, from 0.77 to 1.43GHz with an average gain of 3.4dBi. The dimension of the dielectric resonator antenna is compact, which is 0.257λo and also low-profile with a height of 0.051λo. 2015-10 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/54593/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/54593/1/MuhammadIshakAbdulSukurMFKE2015.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:86698 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
collection	UTM Institutional Repository
language	English
topic	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering Abdul Sukur, Muhammad Ishak Hybrid dielectric resonator antenna for ultra high frequency band
description	A hybrid Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) design using the concept of the Dielectric-Resonator-on-Patch (DRoP) is presented in this thesis. This design is introduced to overcome the narrow bandwidth and big size drawbacks experienced by the antennas in the UHF band applications. The hybrid DRA has the ability to provide wide bandwidth while maintaining its compact structure. Firstly, two antenna designs which are the aperture-coupled square microstrip patch antenna (RMPA) and dielectric resonator antenna (RDRA) are presented to investigate the characteristic of the antennas individually. Two different aperture shapes, rectangular and circular are used to clarify the difference between them. Then, both antennas are combined together into the hybrid DRA structure. All three antennas are designed and optimized using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) microwave studio software and the Taconic RF-35 is used as the substrate for the prototype fabrication. The antenna performances such as the reflection coefficient magnitude (S11), bandwidth, radiation pattern and gain are measured. In the RMPA design, both configurations managed to obtain a compact size, with a reduction of more than 25% compared to the reference antenna. On the other hand, by maintaining the size of the DRA at 7cm × 7cm × 1.4cm, a wide bandwidth of around 30% is recorded using the circular aperture in the RDRA design. The hybrid DRA combined both RMPA and RDRA, resulting in wider bandwidth of 60%, from 0.77 to 1.43GHz with an average gain of 3.4dBi. The dimension of the dielectric resonator antenna is compact, which is 0.257λo and also low-profile with a height of 0.051λo.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Abdul Sukur, Muhammad Ishak
author_facet	Abdul Sukur, Muhammad Ishak
author_sort	Abdul Sukur, Muhammad Ishak
title	Hybrid dielectric resonator antenna for ultra high frequency band
title_short	Hybrid dielectric resonator antenna for ultra high frequency band
title_full	Hybrid dielectric resonator antenna for ultra high frequency band
title_fullStr	Hybrid dielectric resonator antenna for ultra high frequency band
title_full_unstemmed	Hybrid dielectric resonator antenna for ultra high frequency band
title_sort	hybrid dielectric resonator antenna for ultra high frequency band
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate	2015
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/54593/1/MuhammadIshakAbdulSukurMFKE2015.pdf
_version_	1747817684102283264

Hybrid dielectric resonator antenna for ultra high frequency band

Similar Items