Overview of Co-Design Approach to RF Filter and Antenna

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2018.01.007

Abstract

Abstract:

The filter and antenna are two key components of the radio frequency (RF) front-end. When the antenna is directly connected with the filter, additional mismatch losses will be caused. Therefore, the antenna and filter are integrated into a single device to provide both filtering and radiating functions. In this way, many advantages, like low cost, light weight, small size and lower insertion loss can be obtained. In this paper, the co-design approaches of RF filter-antenna are reviewed. Based on the open literatures, the integrated approaches of filtering antenna can be classified into five main categories:1) Co-design by optimizing the interfacing impedance, 2) co-design according to the synthesis approach of filter, 3) co-design by embedding novel resonators within the feeding structures, 4) co-design by employing auxiliary physical structures, and 5) other methods. The RF filter-antenna system can improve the integration degree of RF front-end, reduce its size and cost, and optimize its performance.

Key words: filtering antenna, Co-design, RF front-end

ZHANG Wenmei, CHEN Xinwei. Overview of Co-Design Approach to RF Filter and Antenna[J]. ZTE Communications, 2018, 16(1): 61-66.

Figures/Tables 9

Figure 1. A co-designed filtering antenna.

Figure 2. a) Measured and simulated S11 and b) Measured gains for the co-designed and traditional filtering antennas.

Figure 3. a) The first electrical small filtering antenna and b) measured and simulated |S11| and realized gain values of the filtering antenna.

Figure 4. a) Layout of the proposed reconfigurable filtering slot antenna and b) simulated and measured S11 and gain of the FSA for OFF and ON states.

Figure 5. Photograph fed by a uniform power divider network.

Figure 6. a) Fabrication prototype of the dual-band filtering antenna and b) simulated and measured results of the proposed antenna.

Figure 7. Schematic of the proposed tunable bandpass filtering antenna: a) The top layer; b) the bottom layer.

Figure 8. Photographs (top view and back view) of the codesigned filtering antenna and the conventional planar printed monopole antenna.

Figure 9. a) Photograph of the designed wideband filtering CP antenna and b) configuration of the proposed wideband filtering CP antenna.

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