Design of multi-patch planar filtering antenna

Tian Fu1*, Feng Shang1,Linyi Fu1

Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an, 710121, China
*corresponding Email: [email protected]

Abstract: In this paper, a planar filter patch microstrip antenna II. ANTENNA DESIGN
based on multi-patch is proposed. The antenna has the advantages
of low profile, high gain, wide band and high selectivity of band Fig. 1 shows the geometric view of the proposed planar
edges. The antenna is composed of a rectangular patch antenna, a filtering antenna. The antenna consists of a rectangular drive
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pair of symbiotic patches, four parasitic patches and six symbiotic patch, a pair of symbiotic patches, four parasitic patches, six
strips.By adding parasitic strips around the driven patch can excite symbiotic strips and coaxial feeder. The drive patch is located
new resonances at high frequency, while making the high frequency
band edge selectivity better due to the generation of radiation null in the center of the substrate. The symbiotic patch is located on
near high frequency. By embedding two symbiotic strips along the the X-axis of the driving patch, four parasitic patches are
Y-axis of the driven radiation patch, a new resonance and radiation located around the driven patch, and six symbiotic strips are
null at low frequency can be generated. Finally, six rectangular evenly distributed along the Y-axis of the driven patch. The
patches were introduced along the X-axis of the driven radiating inner and outer conductors of the coaxial feeder are connected
patch to improve the in-band matching. The proposed antenna is
physically processed, and the measured results are consistent with with the rectangular patch and the metal ground respectively.
the simulation results. IBW is 16.26% (3.39-3.99 GHz), and the The antenna adopts F-4B substrate, the relative dielectric
average gain is greater than 9.5dBi.The out-of-band gain constant of substrate is 2.65, and the tangent value of loss
suppression level on both sides can reach 10dB. angle is 0.003. The main structural dimensions of the antenna
Key words: Filtering patch antenna; 5G; Microstrip antenna; after simulation optimization are shown in Table Ⅰ.
Planar antenna
I. INTRODUCTION
With the rapid development of mobile communication,
various antennas with different operating frequencies and
polarization methods are concentrated in the increasingly
crowded working space, and the coupling interference between
antennas becomes stronger, which makes the working
environment of each antenna deteriorate.This requires the use
of additional decoupling techniques to reduce the impact. And (a)
the filtering antenna itself can play the role of decoupling at
different frequencies. For the design of filtering antennas, (b)
Fig.1. Geometric structure of the proposed antenna.
many techniques have been reported at home and abroad. In (a) Top view. (b) Side view.
general, the radiation and filtering characteristics are achieved
TABLE I
simultaneously by cascading the antenna and the filter [1-3]. THE SIZE OF THE PROPOSED ANTENNA (UNIT: MM)
However, this way impedance is not easy to match, and if an
impedance converter is used to adjust the matching, it will Parameter G1 H w1 l1 w2 l2 w3 l3
make the insertion loss larger and the filtering performance Value/mm 100 3 22.5 24 6.4 22 13.7 6
decreases. Another way is to use the antenna as the last level of
parameter w4 l4 s1 s2 s3 s4 d r1
the filter [4-5], this type of antenna has a smaller size. The
above types of filtering antennas all contain resonators that do Value/mm 6.8 20 4.5 1.5 5.2 2.5 6 0.45
not participate in radiation, so the gain and efficiency of the
antenna are reduced. The synergistic design of filtering With the aim of properly explaining the design concept of
antennas proposed in recent years can have good filtering the filtering antenna, the four-step of antenna design process
performance without reducing the gain and efficiency of the from Antenna I (Ant.I) to Antenna Ⅳ (Ant.Ⅳ) is given in
antenna. Fig.2.
The planar filtering antenna with multiple patches proposed
in this paper expands the operating bandwidth of the antenna
and improves the band edge selectivity by adding symbiotic
patches, parasitic bands and symbiotic strips. The antenna can
well achieve high gain and high out-of-band suppression level Fig.2. Four steps of the proposed antenna(Ant.Ⅰ to Ant.Ⅳ).
just with simple structure and low profile.

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 In order to clearly explain the function of the parasitic simulated results (3.32-3.89GHz).The results of realized gain
patches, Ant.Ⅰ and Ant.Ⅱ are introduced.Ant.Ⅰ is a traditional are shown in Fig.5(b).The realized gain curve shows that the
planar microstrip patch antenna, and Ant.Ⅱ is based on the antenna has an average gain of 9.5 dBi in the passband and two
traditional microstrip patch antenna with four parasitic patches. radiation nulls at 3.24GHz and 4.22GHz.The out-of-band gain
Two resonance points appear on the S11 curve of Ant.Ⅱ, and suppression level on both sides can reach 10dB.
the edge of S11 curve becomes steep at high frequency. The
gain curve of Ant.Ⅱ shows a high frequency radiation null as
shown in Fig.3(b). Therefore, compared with Ant.Ⅰ, Ant.Ⅱ has
the advantages of increasing bandwidth and improving
selectivity of high frequency.
To further improve low frequency selectivity and out of
band suppression. Two symbiotic patches are added along the Fig.5. Simulated and Measured results of Ant.Ⅳ.
X-axis of the driven patch. The S11 curve of Ant.Ⅲ appears a (a)S11 curves. (b)Realized Gain curves.
new resonance point at low frequency, and the S11 curve
B. Radiation pattern
becomes steeper at low frequency as shown in Fig.3(a). A
The Fig.6 plots the radiation patterns in the E-/H-plane of
radiation null at low-frequency appears on the gain curve of proposed antenna at 3.5GHz.The Co-polarization (Co-P) fields
Ant.Ⅲ as shown in Fig.3(b). of E-plane and H-plane are more than 20 dB higher than that of
Aim to improve in-band matching, three pairs of rectangular Cross-polarization (Cross-P) in the boresight direction.
patches are added along the Y-axis of the driven patch.
Compared with Ant.Ⅲ, the in-band matching of Ant.Ⅳ
became better, and the frequency band of S11<-10dB are
3.32GHz to 3.89GHz.

Fig.6. Radiation patterns at 3.5HGHz.(a)E-plane.(b)H-plane.

IV. CONCLUSION

(a) (b) In this paper, a coaxial-fed multi-patch microstrip filter

Fig.3. Simulated results (Ant.Ⅰ-Ant.Ⅲ). patch antenna is proposed. Through on the basis of original
(a)S11 curves. (b)Realized Gain curves. microstrip patch to add four parasitic patches can make the
III. SIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT RESULTS antenna at high frequency produces a radiation null. Add a pair
of symbiotic patch in the Y-axis can make the antenna in the
In order to verify the expected feasibility of antenna theory, low frequency produces another radiation null. Finally, add six
a case antenna operating at 3.5GHz is designed and fabricated symbiotic strips on the X-axis can improve antenna matching.
in this section. The proposed antenna was simulated and In addition,it can also make suppression level better. After
optimized by ANSYS HFSS V19.0 software, and the fabricating and testing, the proposed filtering antenna
fabricated antenna was tested by vector network analyzer and possesses a relatively wide bandwidth and high gain. At the
microwave anechoic chamber.Fig.4 is fabricated of the same time,a good out-of-band suppression level is achieved.
proposed antenna and and its test environment. Four screw This paper provides a new solution for future filtering antenna
holes are arranged around the antenna for easy fixing and design without using additional filtering circuits.
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