Wideband Inverted L-shaped Dielectric Resonator

Antenna for Medical Applications

P. Suwanta, P. Krachodnok, and R. Wongson
School of Telecommunication Engineering, Institute of Engineering
Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhonratchasima,Thailand
E-mail: m5841486@g.sut.ac.th,priam@sut.ac.th, and rangsan@sut.ac.th

Abstract— Telecommunications has expanded rapidly. It's The remainders of this paper are organized as follows:
absolutely necessary to optimize the antenna’s performance to section II presents an overview of the parameters involved in
support applications usage in medical development as microwave the design model, section III the simulation results of the
imaging. The radiation pattern basically needs to be directed proposed model. The conclusion of this paper is presented in
toward the breast phantom and high gain. Investigated by high Section IV.
resolution breast cancer that makes antenna can be delivered in a
wide spectrum. The role of this research is to design wideband
dielectric resonator antenna (WDRA) by using inverted L-shape
associated with a curved top face and inverted trapezoidal patch
feed, specialized by engineering CST microwave studio for a
bandwidth, gain, behavior of the wave, and radiation pattern
demonstration. WDRA that make this replication can be used in
the function of a medical technique.

Keywords— compact: dielectric resonator antenna; inverted

trapezoidal patch, wideband

I. INTRODUCTION
Many researchers regard antenna's recent development
growth in medical applications used to diagnose the breast
cancer, which was in the frequency range of 4-9 GHz [1]-[2].
The antenna design was to be combined with the technical
microwave imagine. The diagnosis required a high resolution FIG .1. GEOMETRY OF THE PROPOSED DRA
by virtue of the wide bandwidth [3] - [4], thus monopole (A) TOP VIEW, (B) FRONT VIEW, (C) SIDE VIEW.
antennas were used to detect the breast cancer. However, these
antenna patterns were spread around in a manner which was II. DESIGN
not in a position to verify the continued propagation, resulting The structure of the wideband dielectric resonator antenna
in wasted energy. On the other hand, the directional antenna as shown in Fig.1 is placed on the PCB FR4 substrate
was to point the beam to the breast only one side, resulting in a permittivity 4.5, the length of x = 44 mm, and the width of y =
narrow bandwidth [4]. 44 mm. The Curved DR on the top is designed by Roger RT
The previous studies relating to have a dielectric resonator 6010 (dielectric constant of 10.2) excited by the microstrip line
(DR) antenna developed to make waves reduced, features to inverted trapezoidal patch feed to merge with DR. The top of
specifically to the characteristics attributed to high radiation the arc has adapted to reduce the back radiation. We cut some
entering the feed resulted in increased bandwidth [5] - [7]. pieces (a2 and d 2) to reduce the reflection of electromagnetic
Therefore, this paper proposes the method to take DR to be waves at high frequency. Details of parameters used in the
designed antenna with high bandwidth for applications in the model are shown in Table I.
medical field by using the reshaped DR associated with
inverted trapezoidal patch feed, to induce a wave tend in one TABLE I. ANTENNA PARAMETERS
direction. When we observed the behavior of the electric field,
it makes the slash piece off some DR waves to spread well. Dimension Dimension
Parameter Parameter
This article is based on simulation used the CST microwave (mm.) (mm.)
studio software with the impedance bandwidth of 81.16%. The b1 34 d1 10
role of this research is to design the wide band DR antenna to a1 23 d2 3.6
be applied in medical applications. a2 11 l 11

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 III. SIMULATION RESULTS

Because the S11 can be used to determine the matching of

the input impedance, the antenna is only accepted if it is less
than or equal to -10 dB. As seen in Fig. 2, the proposed antenna
is matched to the transmission line. There are waves reflected 5 GHz
back at least as well as the frequency in the range between 3.76
to 9.35 GHz. The gain of the antenna that is around 5.8 to 9.2
dB illustrates in Fig.3. The simulated electric field distributions
of proposed antenna display in Fig 4, the waves are organized
the distribution of power to suit the frequency. It is found that
the surface in above of the DR will affect the low frequency
and region's bottom affect to the high frequency, which the
shape of DR affects to the spread of the wave. Fig. 5 shows 7 GHz 9 GHz
radiation patterns in different frequencies , it is the pointed Fig. 5 . The simulated radiation patterns of the proposed antenna in E- and H-
direction planes at (a) 5 GHz, (b) 7 GHz, and (c) 9 GHz.

IV. CONCOULDSION
This research proposes the wide bandwidth antenna
S11 (dB)

by using modified shape of dielectric resonator. The results

obtained from the S11 with the impedance bandwidth of
81.61% in the operating frequency range between 3.71 to 9.35
GHz. The nature of the radiation pattern is the direction in
Frequency (GHz) which the outcome. It shows in the way that the antenna is
Fig. 2. Simulated S11 resultes of the wideband i dielectric resonator antenna designed to be useful for medical applications in the detection
of breast cancer.
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Fig. 4. Simulated electric field distributions of proposed antenna at (a) 5 GHz,

(b) 7 GHz, and (c) 9 GHz

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