Dual-band and high-isolation shared-aperture antenna for broadband airborne applications

Yuan Zhang , Dong-Jun Wang , Chuan Wu , Qiang-Ming Cai , Run-Ren Zhang , Rong-Qiang Li , Peng Gao , Yan-Wen Zhao

Journal of Electronic Science and Technology ›› 2024, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (4) : 100288

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Journal of Electronic Science and Technology ›› 2024, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (4) : 100288 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnlest.2024.100288
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Dual-band and high-isolation shared-aperture antenna for broadband airborne applications

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A dual-band and high-isolation shared-aperture antenna for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms has been proposed. This shared-aperture antenna consists of a rectangular monopole antenna and a 4-element multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna. In order to increase the isolation, several double split ring metamaterial (MTM) structures are introduced between antenna elements. The antenna radiator and the MTM structure are located on the front and back of the same dielectric substrate, respectively, and are perpendicular to a circular metal plate. The overall size of the antenna substrate is 124 ​mm ​× ​38 ​mm ​× ​1.016 ​mm. Moreover, the antenna prototype is constructed and measured, and the simulated and measured results are in good agreement. The measured results show that the −10 dB bandwidth of the monopole antenna is 1.92 ​GHz–2.75 ​GHz, and the common −6.0 ​dB bandwidth of the MIMO antenna element is 4.75 ​GHz–4.91 ​GHz, covering 2.2 ​GHz–2.4 ​GHz in the S-band and 4.8 ​GHz–4.9 ​GHz in the 5G band, respectively. In the 5G band, the isolation between any element of the MIMO antenna and the S-band monopole antenna is not less than 21 ​dB, and the isolation between the MIMO antenna elements is better than 23 ​dB, indicating that the isolation between the antenna elements is high. The proposed antenna is suitable for the application on UAV airborne platforms.

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Dual-band antenna / High-isolation / Monopole antenna / Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) / Shared-aperture / Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

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Yuan Zhang, Dong-Jun Wang, Chuan Wu, Qiang-Ming Cai, Run-Ren Zhang, Rong-Qiang Li, Peng Gao, Yan-Wen Zhao. Dual-band and high-isolation shared-aperture antenna for broadband airborne applications. Journal of Electronic Science and Technology, 2024, 22(4): 100288 DOI:10.1016/j.jnlest.2024.100288

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 61801406 and No. U23A20651; in part by the Research Fund of Sichuan Provincial under Grants No. 2024NSFSC0478 and No. 2022YFG0259; in part by the Research Fund of Key R&D Projects in Sichuan Province under Grant No. 2022-ZY00-00009-GX; in part by the Mianyang Central Guiding Local Science and Technology Development Fund Project under Grants No. 2023ZYDF002 and No. 2023ZYDF092.

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The authors declare the following personal relationships which may be considered as competing interests: Yuan Zhang and Peng Gao are currently employed by AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Industrial (Group) Co., Ltd. Other authors declare no conflicts of interests.

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