This paper presents a wideband and high-gain rectangular microstrip array antenna with a new frequency-selective surface (FSS) designed as a reflector for the sub-6 5G applications. The proposed antenna is designed to meet the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) standard for 5G in the mid-band (3.5–5 GHz) applications. The designed antenna configuration consists of 1 × 4 rectangular microstrip array antenna with an FSS reflector to produce a semi-stable high radiation gain. The modeled FSS delivered a wide stopband transmission coefficient from 3.3 to 5.6 GHz and promised a linearly declining phase over the mid-band frequencies. An equivalent circuit (EC) model is additionally performed to verify the transmission coefficient of the proposed FSS structure for wideband signal propagation. A low-cost FR-4 substrate material was used to fabricate the antenna prototype. The proposed wideband array antenna with an FSS reflector attained a bandwidth of 2.3 GHz within the operating frequency range of 3.5–5.8 GHz, with a fractional bandwidth of 51.12%. A high gain of 12.4 dBi was obtained at 4.1 GHz with an improvement of 4.4 dBi compared to the antenna alone. The gain variation was only 1.0 dBi during the entire mid-band. The total dimension of the fabricated antenna prototype is 10.32 λo × 4.25 λo ×1.295 λo at a resonance frequency of 4.5 GHz. These results make the presented antenna appropriate for 5G sub-6 GHz applications.
This paper proposes and demonstrates a compact integrated filtering antenna built on a square ring resonator coupled with a capacitors loaded microstrip line filter. A microstrip filter module is connected to feeding line of the conventional patch without adding extra space. Thus, the combined configuration possesses radiating and filtering functions simultaneously. The proposed filtenna has a fractional bandwidth (FBW) of 3% at center frequency 2.4 GHz with 2.5 dB of maximum gain. The obtained result shows that the proposed design shows good stopband gain rejection, good selectivity at band edges, and smooth passband gain. Furthermore, the introduced filtenna has advantages of a small size and a simple structure, which makes it ideal for interconnection with different wearable devices operating within 2.4 GHz wireless system range.
In this paper, an absorptive filter-integrated switch (FIS) using switchable T-shape resonators is presented. The FIS was made up of two absorptive T-shape resonators and integrated with single pole double throw (SPDT) switch. A simple mathematical analysis of isolation and insertion loss of filter-integrated SPDT switch is discussed. PIN diodes were used as the switching elements for the SPDT switch and to reconfigure between the band-stop and bandpass responses. The proposed absorptive FIS design could be used for internet of things (IoT) applications such as Zigbee and Bluetooth at an operation frequency of 2.45 GHz. As a result, the proposed FIS exhibited low magnitude of insertion loss and high isolation. Therefore, the key advantages of the proposed FIS design are low insertion loss, high isolation, and good return loss at both ON-and OFF-state ports.
In this paper, a reconfigurable ring resonator-based filter integrated switch (FIS) was presented. The FIS was made up of two absorptive ring resonators, reconfiguring between band-stop and band-pass responses, and integrated with single pole double throw (SPDT) switch. A simple mathematical analysis of isolation and insertion loss of filter-integrated SPDT switch was discussed. PIN diodes were used as the switching elements for the SPDT switch and to reconfigure between the band-stop and band-pass responses. The proposed absorptive FIS design could be used for wireless data communication systems such as Zigbee and Bluetooth at an operation frequency of 2.45 GHz. As a result, the proposed FIS exhibited 2 dB of insertion loss and better than 38 dB of isolation. Therefore, the key advantages of the proposed FIS design are low insertion loss, high isolation and good return loss at both ON-and OFF-state ports.
A reconfigurable filter integrated single-pole double-throw (SPDT) switch (FIS) based on capacitor loaded ring resonators is presented in this paper. The design incorporates two PIN diodes between two symmetric square ring resonators. The ring resonators can be switched between allstop and bandpass responses, by adjusting the state of the PIN diodes, allowing the corresponding signal path to be in OFF-state with high isolation or ON-state with bandpass filter response. For demonstration, filtering switch was fabricated and measured for 2.4 GHz applications. The measurement results featured an ON-state low insertion loss of −2.1 dB and port-to-port isolation of −52 dB at the band of interest, and good consistency is achieved between simulated and measured results.
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