A 3D-Printed Hybrid Water Antenna with Tunable Frequency and Beamwidth
A novel hybrid water antenna with tunable frequency and beamwidth is proposed. An L-shaped metallic strip is adopted as the feeding structure of the antenna in order to effectively broaden the operating bandwidth. The L-shaped strip feeder and a rectangular water dielectric resonator constitute the...
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| author | Zeng-Pei Zhong Jia-Jun Liang Guan-Long Huang Tao Yuan |
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| description | A novel hybrid water antenna with tunable frequency and beamwidth is proposed. An L-shaped metallic strip is adopted as the feeding structure of the antenna in order to effectively broaden the operating bandwidth. The L-shaped strip feeder and a rectangular water dielectric resonator constitute the driven element. Five identical rectangular water dielectric elements are mounted linearly with respect to the driven element, which act as the directors and contribute to narrow the beamwidth. By varying the height of the liquid water level in the driven element, the proposed antenna is able to tune to different operational frequencies. Furthermore, it is also able to adjust to different beamwidths and gains via varying the number of director elements. A prototype is fabricated by using 3-D printing technology, where the main parts of the antenna are printed with photopolymer resin, and then the ground plane and L-shaped strip feeder are realized by using adhesive copper tapes. Measurement results agree well the simulation ones. A tunable frequency ranging from 4.66 GHz to 5.65 GHz is obtained and a beam steering along a fixed direction with a gain variation less than 0.5 dB is realized. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-186f8a786e964f82a0f9e1b91215fb842022-12-22T03:59:14ZengMDPI AGElectronics2079-92922018-10-0171023010.3390/electronics7100230electronics7100230A 3D-Printed Hybrid Water Antenna with Tunable Frequency and BeamwidthZeng-Pei Zhong0Jia-Jun Liang1Guan-Long Huang2Tao Yuan3College of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, ChinaCollege of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, ChinaCollege of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, ChinaCollege of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, ChinaA novel hybrid water antenna with tunable frequency and beamwidth is proposed. An L-shaped metallic strip is adopted as the feeding structure of the antenna in order to effectively broaden the operating bandwidth. The L-shaped strip feeder and a rectangular water dielectric resonator constitute the driven element. Five identical rectangular water dielectric elements are mounted linearly with respect to the driven element, which act as the directors and contribute to narrow the beamwidth. By varying the height of the liquid water level in the driven element, the proposed antenna is able to tune to different operational frequencies. Furthermore, it is also able to adjust to different beamwidths and gains via varying the number of director elements. A prototype is fabricated by using 3-D printing technology, where the main parts of the antenna are printed with photopolymer resin, and then the ground plane and L-shaped strip feeder are realized by using adhesive copper tapes. Measurement results agree well the simulation ones. A tunable frequency ranging from 4.66 GHz to 5.65 GHz is obtained and a beam steering along a fixed direction with a gain variation less than 0.5 dB is realized.http://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/7/10/230water antenna3-D printingtunable frequencytunable beamwidthdielectric resonator antenna |
| spellingShingle | Zeng-Pei Zhong Jia-Jun Liang Guan-Long Huang Tao Yuan A 3D-Printed Hybrid Water Antenna with Tunable Frequency and Beamwidth Electronics water antenna 3-D printing tunable frequency tunable beamwidth dielectric resonator antenna |
| title | A 3D-Printed Hybrid Water Antenna with Tunable Frequency and Beamwidth |
| title_full | A 3D-Printed Hybrid Water Antenna with Tunable Frequency and Beamwidth |
| title_fullStr | A 3D-Printed Hybrid Water Antenna with Tunable Frequency and Beamwidth |
| title_full_unstemmed | A 3D-Printed Hybrid Water Antenna with Tunable Frequency and Beamwidth |
| title_short | A 3D-Printed Hybrid Water Antenna with Tunable Frequency and Beamwidth |
| title_sort | 3d printed hybrid water antenna with tunable frequency and beamwidth |
| topic | water antenna 3-D printing tunable frequency tunable beamwidth dielectric resonator antenna |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/7/10/230 |
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