Study of Integrated Antennas-Filters on Dielectric Resonators

Abstract

New structures of dielectric resonators, simultaneously performing the functions of antennas and input filters of transceiver-transmitting devices of communication in the microwave wavelength range, are proposed. The new structures have the form of coupled systems of dielectric resonators, some of which are located in the segment of the evanescent waveguide and perform the functions of a band-pass filter, and the other part of the resonators are located in open space and perform the functions of an antenna system. A part of the resonators of the antenna subsystem has the form of dielectric semi-cylinders glued onto a metallic conductive screen and plays the role of directors forming the radiation characteristic. Two cases of the same and different in shape and material dielectric resonators are considered. For the case of dielectric resonators of different types, using the perturbation theory, a system of equations was obtained for the coefficients of the expansion of the scattering field from the known coupled oscillations of the system. Using the developed theory, the frequency dependence of the reflection coefficient of the proposed antenna-filters was calculated. It is shown that the proposed structures are characterized by much more rectangular amplitude-frequency characteristics, which allows to effectively solve the problems of electromagnetic compatibility of several communication systems using adjacent bandwidths. An additional advantage of the considered antenna filters are smaller dissipative losses, which is important for reducing bit errors. Calculated radiation patterns of antennas in the far zone. It is also shown that the radiation characteristics of the antennas do not change, or change only slightly compared with antennas made only with the help of similar structures of dielectric resonators. The obtained simulation results can significantly reduce computation time and optimize complex communication systems that simultaneously perform channel separation and radiation functions.