South China University of Technology

Xiuyin Zhang

Yunfei Cao

Shengjie Yang

Jinxu Xu

Quan Xue

Yao Zhang

Yongmei Pan

Yufeng Wu

Pengfei Hu

Chengdai Xue

Bin Li

Jie Tang

Huiliang Xu

Yong-Mei Pan

Wen Duan

Junhui Ou

Kwok Wa Leung

Huiyang Li

Yihui Yao

Xiaofeng Liu

Wanmei Feng

Xiaolan Zhao

Yuli Fu

Wanli Zhan

Yiyang Liu

Shaopeng Ao

Shufeng Yao

Zhijie Zhang

Huafeng Su

Linling Wu

Disclosed are a feed line filtering antenna and a communication device. The antenna comprises a feed line structure and radiator structures, the feed line structure serves as a first-order resonator, the radiator structures are loaded on the feed line structure, and form a two-order filter together with the feed line structure as a last-order resonator, a band-pass filtering effect of the radiator structures is achieved by controlling the coupling between the first-order resonator and the last-order resonator; when a feed line filtering antenna having three or more orders is achieved, an additional resonator is coupled on a feed line filtering antenna having two orders. According to the present invention, in-band and out-of-band interference can be effectively filtered, the return loss and efficiency of the antenna are not greatly changed compared with those of a single antenna, and the horizontal radiation and gain requirement of the vehicle-mounted antenna can be ensured.

Feed line filtering antenna and communication device

The present application relates to a dual-polarized filtering antenna unit and a dual-polarized filtering antenna array, and relates to the technical field of antennas. The dual-polarized filtering antenna unit comprises a metal substrate and a radiating layer, a plurality of dielectric layers are provided between the metal substrate and the radiating layer, and a first via hole and a second via hole are provided on each dielectric layer, wherein the first via holes and the second via holes are for accommodating metal pillars, and the metal pillars are for transmitting current signals. Axes of the first via holes of the plurality of dielectric layers are parallel or coincident. The first via holes of the adjacent dielectric layers are electrically connected through the metal layer between the adjacent dielectric layers.

Dual-polarized filtering antenna units and dual-polarized filtering antenna arrays

Disclosed are a base station, and a broadband dual-polarized filtering magneto-electric dipole antenna and a radiation unit thereof. A radiation structure includes two dipoles with a polarization direction orthogonal to each other. Each dipole includes two radiators arranged opposite to each other. A balun structure includes four balun assemblies, each balun assembly includes two balun grounds arranged opposite to each other at an interval, and a feeder line and an open-stub arranged opposite to each other at an interval and electrically connected to each other. One balun ground is electrically connected to one radiator, the other balun ground is electrically connected to the other adjacent radiator. The feeder line and one balun ground are arranged opposite to each other at an interval. The open-stub and the other balun ground are arranged opposite to each other at an interval. The balun grounds are arranged between the feeder line and the open-stub.

Base station, and broadband dual-polarized filtering magneto-electric dipole antenna and radiation unit thereof

The invention discloses shared-aperture dual-band dual-polarized antenna array and communication equipment. The antenna array comprises a first dielectric substrate, a second dielectric substrate, a third dielectric substrate, a fourth dielectric substrate, and a fifth dielectric substrate. The first dielectric substrate, the second dielectric substrate, and the third dielectric substrate constitute a dielectric substrate group. The dielectric substrate group is provided with a low-frequency antenna element and four high-frequency antenna elements. The low-frequency antenna element is loaded with a filtering structure. The low-frequency antenna element and the high-frequency antenna element are fed by coaxial lines. The fourth dielectric substrate and the fifth dielectric substrate form a dual-function metasurface. When the dual-function metasurface is used as an artificial magnetic conductor reflector, the radiation of the low-frequency antenna element is enhanced in a low profile, and when used as a frequency selective surface, the electromagnetic scattering of the low-frequency antenna element in the high-frequency band is suppressed. Compared with the existing solutions, the present invention is more compact, and maintains high cross-band isolation and stable radiation patterns in dual bands.

Shared-aperture dual-band dual-polarized antenna array and communication equipment

The invention discloses a feed network for an antenna array with integrated filtering, power splitting and phase shifting, comprising upper and lower metal floors, metal connecting posts, coaxial feed terminals, a suspended dielectric substrate, suspended strip lines and two phase-adjusting dielectric substrates; the upper and lower metal floors share a common ground through the metal connecting posts, the suspended strip lines are provided on the suspended dielectric substrate, the suspended dielectric substrate is positioned horizontally between the two phase-adjusting dielectric substrates, the two phase-adjusting dielectric substrates are positioned horizontally between the upper and lower metal floors; the suspended strip lines comprise a one-to-three filtering power splitting unit, two one-to-two unequal filtering power splitting units, two first phase-shifting lines and two second phase-shifting lines, the two phase-adjusting dielectric substrates cover the one-to-three filtering power splitting unit, part of the two first phase-shifting lines and the two second phase-shifting lines. The invention provides integrated design of the three functional circuits with filtering, power splitting and phase shifting to avoid cascading mismatch between different functional circuits in conventional designs.

Filtering, power-dividing and phase-shifting integrated antenna array feed network

A millimeter wave filtering antenna and a wireless communication device are disclosed. The millimeter wave filtering antenna includes a parasitic unit, a feeding unit and a feeding network. The parasitic unit includes at least one quadrilateral parasitic patch and at least one cross shaped parasitic patch, both of which are nested and combined with each other. The feeding unit includes a feeding patch, and the feeding patch is loaded with a short-circuit patch to form coupling. The feeding network feeds the feeding unit. The wireless communication device includes a millimeter wave filtering antenna according to the present disclosure. The radiation performance of the antenna can not only realize the filtering characteristics with high roll-off and high isolation, but also ensure that no additional insertion loss is introduced.

Millimeter wave filtering antenna and wireless communication device

A dual-polarized duplex antenna includes a top-layer dielectric substrate; a metal reflective ground plate below the top-layer dielectric substrate; vertically-placed duplex baluns for duplexing operation between the top-layer dielectric substrate and the metal reflective ground plate; and four dipole arms horizontally printed on an upper surface of the top-layer dielectric substrate. Each of the duplex balun includes a vertical dielectric substrate, a balun feedline printed on a front side of the vertical dielectric substrate, and a ground plane with a printed slot line printed on a reverse side of the vertical dielectric substrate. The balun feedline includes a low-pass filter, a high-pass filter and a microstrip feeding structure serving as a connection. The low-pass filter and the high-pass filter are located on two sides of the slot line, and are connected together by the microstrip feeding structure.

Dual-polarized duplex antenna and dual-band base station antenna array composed thereof

The invention discloses a dual-polarized filtering magneto-electric dipole antenna, which comprises an upper dielectric substrate and a lower dielectric substrate. The upper surface of the upper dielectric substrate is printed with a radiator structure, and the lower dielectric substrate is printed with a slot coupling feed network; the radiator structure comprises four parasitic patches loaded with symmetrical slots. The parasitic patches are loaded with short-circuit probes, and the slot coupling feed network comprises two orthogonal sets of Y-shaped feeders and cross-shaped slots, and the cross-shaped slots are printed on a metal floor. The new parasitic slot structures on the radiator structure increases the bandwidth while introducing a high roll-off band edge filtering effect, and combined with the slot coupling feed network with filtering function to achieve good band-pass filtering characteristics and hardly introduce additional insertion loss.

Low-profile dual-polarization filtering magneto-electric dipole antenna

The present disclosure presents a dual-channel filter based on a dielectric resonator, which includes a metal cavity, a dielectric resonator, two tuning metal probes, and four feeding metal probes. The dielectric resonator is disposed at the center of the metal cavity. The four feeding metal probes are disposed around the metal cavity, and coupled to the dielectric resonator. The two tuning metal probes are connected to the metal cavity, and respectively located at a central position directly above and below the dielectric resonator. The dual-channel filter integrates two channel filters with good isolation between them, and has two input ports and two output ports.

Dual-channel filter based on dielectric resonator

The invention discloses a method for designing a three-dimensional trajectory of an unmanned aerial vehicle based on a wireless power transfer network. The method comprises the following steps: establishing a downlink channel model of the wireless power transfer network; establishing a mathematical model based on maximizing energy harvested by a user, comprising three-dimensional position deployment of an unmanned aerial vehicle, allocation of a charging time, and generation of an energy beam pattern; jointly optimizing on design and analysis of low-complexity iterative algorithms for three-dimensional position deployment of the unmanned aerial vehicle, the charging time and an energy beam; and using branch and bound method to design a three-dimensional flight trajectory of the unmanned aerial vehicle.

Method for designing three-dimensional trajectory of unmanned aerial vehicle based on wireless power transfer network

A simple and compact filtering dielectric resonator antenna comprising: a ground plane, a dielectric substrate defined on the ground plane, a dielectric resonator defined on the dielectric substrate, and a hybrid feeding line, the hybrid feeding line comprises: a microstrip line and a metallic conformal strip, and the microstrip line comprises: a microstrip main branch, a first microstrip stub and a second microstrip stub. In the present invention, a hybrid feeding line is firstly employed to a dielectric resonator antenna. It has been shown that this hybrid feeding line can not only increase the impedance bandwidth of the passband but also can introduce two radiation nulls right near the band edges. Both good filtering and radiating performances are therefore obtained without any extra filtering circuit, giving a very compact structure.

Simple and compact filtering dielectric resonator antenna

The invention discloses a broadband dual-band base station antenna array with high out-of-band isolation, having at least one high-frequency antenna unit, one low-frequency antenna unit and a floor; when there is one high-frequency antenna unit, it is placed on one side of the floor; when there are more than one high-frequency antenna units, they are placed on both sides of the floor. The high-frequency antenna unit includes multiple dipole arms and a balun, wherein the dipole arms are connected by distributed inductor and fed through the balun; the low-frequency antenna unit including multiple dipole arms and a balun is placed on the middle of the floor, wherein the dipole arms are connected by distributed capacitor and fed through the balun. The balun is provided with a feeder and a H-shape microstrip line. The H-shape microstrip line connects with the feeder.

Broadband dual-band base station antenna array with high out-of-band isolation

A wireless power transfer coil system using offset of electric and magnetic coupling for frequency splitting suppression, which includes one transmitting coil, one receiving coil and four loaded annular metal sheets, is provided. A first annular metal sheet and a second annular metal sheets of the four loaded annular metal sheets are loaded between the transmitting coil and a third and a fourth annular metal sheets of the four loaded annular metal sheets are loaded between the receiving coil to expand a variable distance range of a power transmission. The coil system enables the coils to worked in a state of magnetic and electric coupling. During a process of moving from a long distance to a short distance, a coupling coefficient between the coils changes gradually, but a low coupling degree is still maintained so that a phenomenon of frequency splitting is not produced, thereby maintaining a high-efficiency power transmission within the system.

Wireless power transfer coil system using offset of electric and magnetic coupling for frequency splitting suppression

The present invention discloses a low-profile broadband high-gain filtering antenna. The antenna comprises a radiator, an upper-layer dielectric substrate, a lower-layer dielectric substrate, a microstrip feed-line having open stubs, a ground plane having a plurality of spaced slots, and a metallized via. The radiator generates resonances, provides a broadband and high-gain radiation passband, and meanwhile, adjusting the dimensions of the radiator can adjust the roll-off rate at the upper edge of the passband. The open stub generates a radiation null, and suppresses a resonance in upper band of the antenna. The spaced slot suppresses a resonance in lower band of the antenna. The metallized via connects the microstrip feed-line and the ground plane, generates a radiation null, and improves the roll-off rate at the lower edge of the passband.

Low-profile broadband high-gain filtering antenna

The invention presents a LTCC balun filter using two out-of-phase filtering circuits. The LTCC balun filter is comprised of three half-wavelength resonators and grounds which are located on fourteen metal layers. Vias are utilized to connect different metal parts. The first, fourth, seventh, eleventh and fourteenth metal layers are the ground. The three half-wavelength resonators are on the second, third, fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, tenth, twelfth and thirteenth metal layers. By adjusting the coupling parts of the three half-wavelength resonators, namely the lengths of the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh layers, as well as the distances between them, the coupling strength between the half-wavelength resonators can be tuned. In addition, the quality factor of the circuit can be improved by tuning the port positions. By using the multi-layer LTCC technology, the present invention has the advantage of compact size, novelty, creativity and practicability.

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