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Abstract

This paper proposes a single-fed antenna with large frequency ratio. The antenna integrates a metasurface antenna and a dielectric resonator antenna (DRA), capable of simultaneous operation in both microwave and millimeter-wave bands with single-port feeding. The microwave band achieves resonance through the metasurface antenna, while the millimeter-wave band resonates by exciting the HEM_12δ higher-order mode of the DRA. The proposed metasurface antenna achieves 24% (5.6 GHz-7.13 GHz) impedance bandwidth, 10% (6.2 GHz-6.9 GHz) axial ratio bandwidth, and 6.07 dBi peak gain in the microwave band; the DRA provides 13.4% (27.47 GHz-31.43 GHz) impedance bandwidth and 6.4 dBi peak gain in the millimeter-wave band. With simple structure and excellent performance, this antenna achieves a frequency ratio of 5.2, making it suitable for 5G communication scenarios requiring concurrent Sub-8 GHz and FR2 operation.

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