中国物理B ›› 2017, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (4): 47301-047301.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/26/4/047301

• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Decoupling technique of patch antenna arrays with shared substrate by suppressing near-field magnetic coupling using magnetic metamaterials

Zhaotang Liu(柳兆堂), Jiafu Wang(王甲富), Shaobo Qu(屈绍波), Jieqiu Zhang(张介秋), Hua Ma(马华), Zhuo Xu(徐卓), Anxue Zhang(张安学)   

  1. 1 College of Science, Air Force Engineering University, Xi'an 710051, China;
    2 Key Laboratory of Electronic Materials Research Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China;
    3 School of Electronics and Information, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
  • 收稿日期:2016-05-07 修回日期:2017-01-13 出版日期:2017-04-05 发布日期:2017-04-05
  • 通讯作者: Jiafu Wang, Shaobo Qu E-mail:wangjiafu1981@126.com;qushaobo@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61331005, 61471388, 61501503, 61501502, 61501497, 51575524, 61302023, and 11304393) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China (Grant Nos. 2015JM6300 and 2015JM6277).

Decoupling technique of patch antenna arrays with shared substrate by suppressing near-field magnetic coupling using magnetic metamaterials

Zhaotang Liu(柳兆堂)1, Jiafu Wang(王甲富)1, Shaobo Qu(屈绍波)1, Jieqiu Zhang(张介秋)1, Hua Ma(马华)1, Zhuo Xu(徐卓)2, Anxue Zhang(张安学)3   

  1. 1 College of Science, Air Force Engineering University, Xi'an 710051, China;
    2 Key Laboratory of Electronic Materials Research Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China;
    3 School of Electronics and Information, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
  • Received:2016-05-07 Revised:2017-01-13 Online:2017-04-05 Published:2017-04-05
  • Contact: Jiafu Wang, Shaobo Qu E-mail:wangjiafu1981@126.com;qushaobo@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61331005, 61471388, 61501503, 61501502, 61501497, 51575524, 61302023, and 11304393) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China (Grant Nos. 2015JM6300 and 2015JM6277).

摘要: In this paper, we propose the decoupling technique of patch antenna array by suppressing near-field magnetic coupling (NFMC) using magnetic metamaterials. To this end, a highly-integrated magnetic metamaterials, the substrate-integrated split-ring resonator (SI-SRR), is firstly proposed to achieve negative permeability at the antenna operating frequency. By integrating SI-SRR in between two closely spaced antennas, magnetic fields are blocked in the shared substrate due to negative permeability of SI-SRR, reducing NFMC between the two antennas. To verify the technique, a prototype was fabricated and measured. The measured results demonstrated that the isolation can be enhanced by more than 17 dB even when the gap between the two patch antennas is only about 0.067λ. Due to high integration, this technique provides an effective alternative to high-isolation antenna array.

关键词: antenna isolation, antenna array, near-field magnetic coupling, magnetic metamaterials, negative permeability

Abstract: In this paper, we propose the decoupling technique of patch antenna array by suppressing near-field magnetic coupling (NFMC) using magnetic metamaterials. To this end, a highly-integrated magnetic metamaterials, the substrate-integrated split-ring resonator (SI-SRR), is firstly proposed to achieve negative permeability at the antenna operating frequency. By integrating SI-SRR in between two closely spaced antennas, magnetic fields are blocked in the shared substrate due to negative permeability of SI-SRR, reducing NFMC between the two antennas. To verify the technique, a prototype was fabricated and measured. The measured results demonstrated that the isolation can be enhanced by more than 17 dB even when the gap between the two patch antennas is only about 0.067λ. Due to high integration, this technique provides an effective alternative to high-isolation antenna array.

Key words: antenna isolation, antenna array, near-field magnetic coupling, magnetic metamaterials, negative permeability

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41.20.Jb (Electromagnetic wave propagation; radiowave propagation) 78.20.Bh (Theory, models, and numerical simulation) 84.40.Ba (Antennas: theory, components and accessories)