Wideband low-profile H-shaped dielectric patch antennas based microwave dielectric ceramics

Dielectric patch antenna (DPA) has been extensively studied in recent years, especially for the application of 5G mobile communication system. In this paper, we proposed a notch structure of H-shaped DPA (HDPA) with wideband low-profile properties but without additional components. Temperature stable 0.65 CaTiO3-0.35 LaAlO3 microwave dielectric ceramic of high permittivity was utilized for fabricating the H-shaped dielectric patch, and the method of leveraging the multi-modal features of DPA was introduced. Further analysis of the antenna structure was accomplished by the simplified theoretical method. As a result, the H-shaped notch is properly ensembled in the dielectric patch to make the higher-order TM121 mode close to the dominant TM101 mode, greatly expanding the broadband of the HDPA. The accuracy of the proposed HDPA element model is evaluated by the commercial full-wave simulator CST Microwave Studio. For demonstration, a prototype of the proposed HDPA element operating in the microwave band (5-GHz) has been realized and measured.