This article presents a novel dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) with an eight-port feeding system offering gain and polarization diversity. The single-antenna unit is defined by square arrangement of four aperture coupled slots (ACSs), hybridized the radiation resonator. Basically, atypical layout, realized two microstrip transmission lines driving each ACSs (thus requiring total eight feed li...

This article presents a comprehensive study of the various structured Dielectric Resonator Antennas (DRAs) and also analyzes the effects generated due to change in material of substrate. Dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs) have received increased attention in various applications due to their attractive features in terms of high radiation efficiency, light weight, small size and low profile. O...

In this paper, a hybrid dual-band cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna with parasitic slot fed by a microstrip line that is suitable for wireless body area network is proposed. In this configuration, the dielectric resonator performs the functions of an effective radiator along with the feeding structure and the slot in the ground plane. By optimizing the structural parameters, the antenna ...

In this paper dual band aperture coupled Circularly Polarized (CP) C-Slotted antenna with a small frequency ratio exited through a single feed is proposed for GPS application. The optimized design of CSlot antenna has been validated using IE3D Electromagnetic wave simulator. The C-slot is asymmetrical about the centre of the antenna. The antenna parameters can be optimized by changing the physi...

The paper briefly reviews the historical background of dielectric resonator antenna and its bandwidth enhancement techniques. The main focus is on a compact DRA that can offer broad band operation. It has been illustrated that dual resonance and multi resonance operation can be much effective to give wide band characteristics of DRA. Index Terms dielectric resonator antenna, broadband, multi re...

A new shaped circularly polarized dielectric resonator antenna (CP DRA) is studied with branch-line coupler and log-periodic balun for the GPS application. Since the coupler and balun are located under the DRA, it does not increase the footprint of the antenna, as a result the system is very compact. Two configurations are considered in this paper. In the first configuration, an external 50Ω lo...

A Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator Antenna (LPDRA) for broadband applications is presented. In this paper, a broad bandwidth antenna is formed by application of log periodic technique to the series fed electromagnetically coupled rectangular overlaid dielectric resonator array. This Log Periodic DRA is simulated using a CST microwave studio suite 2010. The simulated results show wider impedanc...

The excitation of the higher-order mode, in rectangular dielectric resonator designed was explored to enhance the antenna gain and detailed elaboration is presented in this paper. The antenna was fed by a 50Ω microstrip line through an aperture cut in the ground plane. Besides avoiding spurious radiation, this feeding technique gives flexibility in controlling the amount of coupling in order to...