{"title":"Multiband, Shorted, Metallic-Plate Dipole Antenna for Wi-Fi 8 and 6G Upper Mid-Band Operation","authors":"Saou-Wen Su;Tung-Chan Yu;Ju-Cheng Huang;Hao-Yu Chuang;Jun-Wei Zheng","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2025.3579788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2025.3579788","url":null,"abstract":"A shorted, metallic-plate dipole antenna capable of functioning in the (2.4, 5, 6) GHz Wi-Fi 8 bands and the 6G upper mid-band in the 7125 MHz to 8400 MHz range is proposed. The antenna structure consists of symmetrical dipole arms, tuning slots, and a shorting portion, all built on a single flat metallic plate of 0.2 mm thickness and with dimensions of 12 mm × 35 mm. The dipole design can operate at the 0.5 λ, 1.5 λ, and 2.5 λ dipole resonances. The first resonant mode contributes to the lower band for 2.4 GHz operation, while the two higher-order modes form a wide frequency range of 5150 MHz to 8400 MHz for (5, 6) GHz Wi-Fi bands and also the 7 GHz to 8 GHz range of the 6G upper mid-band. With a small width of 0.096 λ at 2.4 GHz and the antenna feeding using the small coaxial cable, various antenna-placement possibilities can be expected for practical applications inside the communication devices.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"24 9","pages":"3019-3023"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ka-Band Single-Layered, Wideband Circularly Polarized Array With Multilevel E-Plane Waveguide Sequential Rotation Network","authors":"Zheng Liu;Yingrui Yu;Shi- Shan Qi;Wen Wu","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2025.3579622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2025.3579622","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, a single-layered broadband circularly polarized (CP) slot array is presented for millimeter-wave wireless applications, which is realized by sequentially rotating linearly polarized <italic>E</i>-plane waveguide-fed slot subarrays. The presented subarray consists of four open-ended radiating cavities with surface-etched grooves to suppress the unwanted parasitic current distributions. The introduced grooves can be equalized as secondary radiation sources, thus improving the gain of the subarray and the entire CP array while suppressing the sidelobes. To realize wideband CP radiation, wideband compact multilevel <italic>E</i>-plane waveguide sequential rotation network (SRN) is implemented. Compared with conventional multi-layered full-metal CP arrays, compact <italic>E</i>-plane waveguide is introduced to combine the multilevel SRN and multiple radiators in the same layer while realizing a much wider axial ratio (AR) bandwidth. For demonstration, an 8 × 8 CP array with a multilevel SRN was fabricated and measured, exhibiting an impedance bandwidth of 37.62% (25.9 GHz to 37.9 GHz) and a 3 dB AR bandwidth of 43.75% (25 GHz to 39 GHz). The proposed single-layered CP array own the advantages of wideband, compact size, and high efficiency, which is a promising candidate for <italic>Ka</i>-band wireless applications.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"24 9","pages":"3009-3013"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Si-Yu Yin;Rong Shu;Jia-Lin Li;Yang Yang;Fei Shen;Yubin Gong;Steve W. Y. Mung
{"title":"A Method to Realize the Dual-Band Antenna With Independent Control and Flexible Frequency Ratios Based on Metasurface","authors":"Si-Yu Yin;Rong Shu;Jia-Lin Li;Yang Yang;Fei Shen;Yubin Gong;Steve W. Y. Mung","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2025.3579131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2025.3579131","url":null,"abstract":"The existing dual-band high-gain antennas based on metasurface have a common limit that the frequency ratios cannot be flexibly designated while the dual-band performances cannot be controlled independently. Here, a method to solve this problem is proposed; it adopts the concept of hybridizing a folded reflectarray and a Fabry–Pérot cavity antenna for high-gain dual-band operations. Different from previous works, the two antennas share a common aperture but are separated structurally by a polarization-selective surface that enables dual-band independent control and flexible frequency ratios. A prototype antenna is thus developed and experimentally examined, and the measured results agree well with expectations.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"24 9","pages":"2989-2993"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lei Wang;Cheng Xi Zhang;ShuaiShuai Xing;Yuan Hang Xu;Wei Bing Kong;Jin Shi
{"title":"A Low-Profile Shared-Aperture Patch Antenna With 2-D Scanning Capability","authors":"Lei Wang;Cheng Xi Zhang;ShuaiShuai Xing;Yuan Hang Xu;Wei Bing Kong;Jin Shi","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2025.3578513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2025.3578513","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents a novel low-profile patch antenna with shared aperture and two-dimensional scanning capability. Compared with the state-of-the-art designs, the proposed antenna offers low cost and easy integration due to its simple structure. The millimeter-wave (MMW) stacked patch antenna array is embedded in the weak electric-field (<italic>E</i>-field) region of the antiphase TM<sub>20</sub> mode and TM<sub>12</sub> mode of the microwave (MW) dual-patch antenna. This design interleaves two antenna types within the same aperture, achieving natural isolation. Slots on the MW patch modify the current path of the antiphase TM<sub>20</sub> mode and the TM<sub>12</sub> mode, enabling dual-mode operation with low profile. The stacked patches provide wideband operation in MMW frequency band. Additionally, periodic slots on the MW patch facilitate MMW beam scanning, achieving ±45° beam scanning at both <italic>E</i>- and <italic>H</i>-planes. For demonstration, a prototype of the proposed MW and MMW shared-aperture patch antenna is fabricated and measured, which has a total size of 0.38λ<sub>L</sub> × 0.48<italic>λ</i><sub>L</sub> × 0.022<italic>λ</i><sub>L</sub> (<italic>λ</i><sub>L</sub> is the operating wavelength at 4.6 GHz in free space). Measurements show a 10 dB impedance matching bandwidth of 6.6% and 27.1% and a peak gain of 7.2 dBi and 15.5 dBi in MW and MMW bands, respectively.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"24 9","pages":"2974-2978"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decoupling of Planar Circularly Polarized Patch Array by ADS and Parasitic Structure","authors":"Boju Chen;Aofang Zhang;Xiaoming Chen","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2025.3578658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2025.3578658","url":null,"abstract":"A decoupling method for 2 × 2 circularly polarized (CP) patch antenna arrays is proposed in this letter. Four CP antenna elements surrounded by substrate-integrated waveguide cavities consist of two layers of chamfered patch antennas and are rotated through 90° in sequence to form an array. The partially reflective surface above the array introduces a new coupling path, which cancels out a part of the coupled waves. The metal structure serving as a parasitic loaded monopole in the center of the array further improves the isolation. The measured results show that the 3 dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth can reach 5.8%, and all isolations are higher than 25 dB from 3.35 GHz to 3.55 GHz. The active voltage standing wave ratio of the proposed array is also presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the decoupling method.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"24 9","pages":"2979-2983"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuai Huang;Zewei Wu;Tongxing Huang;Youlei Pu;Zhijing Wen;Jianxun Wang;Yong Luo
{"title":"Low-Profile Water-Based Ultrabroadband 3-D Printed Metamaterial Absorber","authors":"Shuai Huang;Zewei Wu;Tongxing Huang;Youlei Pu;Zhijing Wen;Jianxun Wang;Yong Luo","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2025.3577564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2025.3577564","url":null,"abstract":"A low-profile, dual-polarized water-based metamaterial absorber with ultrabroadband performance is proposed. The design integrates a two-step water block with sinusoidal boundary perturbations and a tapered dielectric shell. The tapered geometry introduces a vertical gradient in effective scattering size, allowing different frequencies to excite different combinations of Mie resonance modes. This mechanism enhances modal density across the spectrum and supports continuous broadband absorption. In addition, a nonuniform gradient impedance transition formed by mismatched tilt angles improves electromagnetic matching. The absorber achieves over 90% absorption from 12.6 GHz to 220 GHz under dual polarization, with robust angular and thermal stability. Measurement results of a 3-D-printed prototype agree well with simulations, validating the proposed geometry-driven multimode absorption mechanism.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"24 9","pages":"2939-2943"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dual-Polarized Filtering Dipole Antenna Using a Novel Crossover Ring Filter Structure","authors":"Rong Ting Jin;Yao Zhang","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2025.3578678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2025.3578678","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents a different dual-polarized filtering antenna design method by inserting a novel crossover ring filter into a conventional balun-feed dipole antenna structure. The performance of the crossover ring filter structure is first analyzed, revealing that different port selections yield distinct stopband effects. Specifically, exciting the horizontal ports of the crossover structure introduces a stopband at upper frequencies while selecting vertical ports generates a stopband at lower frequencies. Leveraging this phenomenon, two third-order crossover ring structures are orthogonally positioned beneath the radiating arms for dual-polarization operation realization. The integration of this structure enables the antenna to achieve the desired bandpass radiation response. For verification, the proposed antenna was fabricated and tested. The results indicate that the antenna achieves an impedance bandwidth of 1.88 GHz to 2.41 GHz, two controllable radiation nulls, and an out-of-band radiation suppression level exceeding 19 dB. These advantages make it an excellent candidate for base station antenna systems.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"24 9","pages":"2984-2988"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhonghe Zhang;Youquan Wen;Sai-Wai Wong;Asif Khan;Chaoyun Song;Yejun He
{"title":"Circularly/Linearly Polarized and Pattern-Reconfigurable MIMO Millimeter-Wave Antenna","authors":"Zhonghe Zhang;Youquan Wen;Sai-Wai Wong;Asif Khan;Chaoyun Song;Yejun He","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2025.3578485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2025.3578485","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, a metal wall reconfigurable millimeter-wave (MMW) polarization/radiation pattern-reconfigurable multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) cavity antenna is presented. First, different modes are excited within the same cavity. Then, the metal wall is used to adjust these modes, with a single slot enabling linear polarization and a crossed slot enabling circular polarization, allowing dynamic control of both polarization and radiation direction. Finally, a MIMO antenna prototype operating at a center frequency of 28.2 GHz is fabricated and tested. In both states, good isolation and gain are achieved, making it suitable for millimeter-wave wireless communication systems.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"24 9","pages":"2969-2973"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physics-Informed Complex Natural Resonance Frequency Correction","authors":"Suqin Wu;Yonggang Li;Fusheng Wang;Weigang Zhu;Shuge Wang;Jiahao Wang;Yining Shi;Yunhua Zhang","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2025.3578384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2025.3578384","url":null,"abstract":"Complex natural resonance frequency is only determined by target’s intrinsic properties, and independent of incident angle and target’s attitude, making target recognition based on complex natural resonance frequency a promising solution. However, the existing extraction methods inevitably introduce calculation errors, resulting in inaccurate extraction of it, which limits the improvement of recognition accuracy. To address these issues, physics-informed complex natural resonance frequency correction is proposed. First, a loss function based on target’s resonance scattering mechanism is designed. Physics is used to drive network to extract features, strengthening the physical constraints on the corrected data. Second, by introducing the idea of complex-valued neural network, a complex domain-variational autoencoder is designed, which considers the correlation between the real and imaginary parts of complex data, thereby excavating more internal features of data. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Compared with the original data, the relative errors are reduced by 18.02% for the real part and 0.49% for the imaginary part. Improving the consistency between corrected data and target’s resonance scattering mechanism.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"24 9","pages":"2959-2963"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of a Dual-Passband Frequency-Selective Rasorber With High Selectivity","authors":"Minrui Wang;Zheng Xiang;Yi Li;Peng Ren;Ruize Xu;Chao Gu;Wei Xue;Steven Gao","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2025.3578316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2025.3578316","url":null,"abstract":"A dual-passband frequency-selective rasorber (FSR) with high selectivity is proposed in this letter. By analyzing the equivalent circuit model, the design approach improving the selectivity of the dual passband is introduced. The FSR is formed by a lossy layer and two frequency-selective surface layers. The lossy layer is composed of two parallel resonance units embedded in a rhombic patch, which is connected with four resistors loaded on the T-shape metal strips. The lossless layer consists of two layers of double square slots to provide highly selective passbands with second-order response. The simulated results show that two transmission bands are achieved at 7.2 GHz and 10.8 GHz with the insertion loss of 0.86 dB and 0.57 dB, and the fractional bandwidth for <inline-formula><tex-math>$|S_{11}|$</tex-math></inline-formula> <inline-formula><tex-math>$< $</tex-math></inline-formula> <inline-formula><tex-math>$-$</tex-math></inline-formula>10 dB is 94.8%. Both sides of the transmission bands exhibit steep roll-off characteristics, with the coefficient of steep drop being 41.18, 77.78, 31.82, and 17.5, respectively. The unit cell size is <inline-formula><tex-math>$0.18 lambda times 0.18 lambda times 0.19 lambda$</tex-math></inline-formula> (<inline-formula><tex-math>$lambda$</tex-math></inline-formula> is the wavelength at the lowest operating frequency). A prototype of the proposed FSR was fabricated and measured. The measured results are consistent with the simulation results.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"24 9","pages":"2954-2958"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}