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A Miniaturized Dual-Band Dual-Beam Filtering Patch Antenna With Orthogonal Beam Pointing
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat. Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on. 72(4):3754-3759 Apr, 2024
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Aerospace
Transportation
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Filtering
Antennas
Probes
Dual band
Wireless communication
Substrates
Quantum cascade lasers
dual beam
filtering antenna
miniaturization
orthogonal beam pointing
Language
ISSN
0018-926X
1558-2221
Abstract
A miniaturized dual-band dual-beam filtering patch antenna with orthogonal beam pointing is proposed. By using a cross-shaped feedline with two pairs of orthogonal common-mode (CM) currents, TM02 and TM20 modes are excited with suppression of adjacent TM10 and TM12 modes, and radiation null 1 (RN1) is introduced in both polarizations. Due to far-field nulls of orthogonal dual-beam patterns, intrinsic radiation null 1 (RN $_{\mathrm {i}1}$ ) and RN $_{\mathrm {i}2}$ are generated. With miniaturization, by etching periodic short slots, RN $_{\mathrm {i}3}$ related to the high-order harmonic can be used, its frequency can be significantly controlled, and the radiation pattern is reshaped to effectively improve the rejection at RN $_{\mathrm {i}3}$ in $x$ -polarization. To ensure high selectivity at each sideband while remaining compact, nested two quasi-circular loops (QCLs) and a cross-shaped metal strip (CSMS) are employed to create RN2–RN4 in both polarizations. Thus, a total of eleven RNs are yielded, aching high selectivity and deep stopband rejection. With a small size of $0.40\lambda _{0} \times 0.44\lambda _{0} \times 0.028\lambda _{0}$ , a prototype is fabricated and tested. Measured results show that dual beams in 5.3–5.53 GHz point toward the $x$ -axis direction, while dual beams in 6.34–6.66 GHz point toward the $y$ -axis direction, satisfying the requirements of point-to-multipoint scenarios providing different wireless services in orthogonal orientations.