This application is a National Stage of International Application No. PCT/CN2020/125207, filed on Oct. 30, 2020, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202010074376.2, filed on Jan. 22, 2020, both of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.
This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and in particular, to an antenna having high isolation and a low cross-polarization level, a base station, and a terminal.
An antenna is a front-end component in a communication system, and performance of the antenna directly affects performance of the communication system. In recent years, a dual-polarized antenna has become a research hotspot because such antenna has a low call loss, low interference, and a low installation and erection requirement, and does not need to perform land acquisition for tower construction. However, when the dual-polarized antenna is used, a cross-polarization phenomenon occurs, which has negative impact on transmit power and a received signal-to-noise ratio of the communication system. In addition, because isolation of the dual-polarized antenna often deteriorates, radiation energy of the antenna is reduced. This is unfavorable to signal propagation.
An objective of embodiments of this application is to provide an antenna having high isolation and a low cross-polarization level. A cross-polarization level of the antenna can be effectively reduced, and isolation of the antenna can be significantly improved.
To achieve the foregoing objective, the technical solutions used in this application are as follows.
According to a first aspect, an antenna having high isolation and a low cross-polarization level is provided. The antenna includes at least one radiation layer, a feed layer, and an aperture coupling layer disposed between the radiation layer and the feed layer. The aperture coupling layer includes a metal sheet; a first feeding slot, a second feeding slot, and a middle slot are configured in the metal sheet; and the middle slot is located between the first feeding slot and the second feeding slot, and is located in a weak electric field region of the metal sheet.
In this embodiment of this application, the middle slot is configured between the first feeding slot and the second feeding slot of the metal sheet, so that a boundary condition of the antenna can be changed due to the middle slot without changing a radiation electric field condition of the antenna. In this way, a current, in a cross-polarization direction, generated on the antenna weakens, to reduce a cross-polarization level. In addition, an energy coupling phenomenon of the antenna is effectively relieved, to significantly improve isolation of the antenna.
Optionally, the metal sheet is polygonal and has a diagonal, the first feeding slot and the second feeding slot are respectively formed on two opposite sides of the diagonal, and the middle slot is distributed along the diagonal. The first feeding slot and the second feeding slot are symmetrically disposed based on the diagonal.
Optionally, there are a plurality of middle slots disposed at intervals, and the middle slots are distributed along the diagonal and located in the weak electric field region. Lengths of the middle slots are consistent or inconsistent.
Optionally, the weak electric field region includes a first region with relatively high electric field strength and a second region with relatively low electric field strength, where the first region and the second region are distributed along the diagonal, and the middle slot is located in the first region and/or the second region. Quantities of the middle slots in the first region may be consistent or inconsistent with that of the middle slots in the second region.
Optionally, the middle slot may be configured along a direction of the diagonal; the middle slot is configured along a length direction of the first region or the second region; the middle slot is configured along a width direction of the first region or the second region; or the middle slot is irregularly configured in the first region or the second region.
Optionally, the middle slot includes a first slot and a second slot, and the first slot and the second slot are distributed at an interval in the first region and/or the second region. The first slot and the second slot may be distributed in both the first region and the second region. Alternatively, the first slot and the second slot may be separately distributed in the first region or the second region.
Optionally, an outline of the middle slot is a rectangle, a circle, an ellipse, or an irregular shape. The outline of the middle slot may match an outline of the first region and/or an outline of the second region.
Optionally, there are two radiation layers, the two radiation layers each include a first dielectric layer and a radiation patch, the two first dielectric layers and the two radiation patches are alternately disposed in an overlapped manner, and the first dielectric layer at a lower layer is disposed on the metal sheet. The first dielectric layer is a PCB layer, and the corresponding radiation patch is attached to the first dielectric layer.
Optionally, a parasitic patch is further disposed on an upper part, away from the aperture coupling layer, of the radiation layer, and a second dielectric layer is formed between the parasitic patch and the radiation patch. The parasitic patch and the corresponding radiation patch are disposed at an interval, and the second dielectric layer is filled between the second parasitic patch and the corresponding radiation patch.
Optionally, the aperture coupling layer further includes a third dielectric layer, and the metal sheet is disposed on the third dielectric layer.
Optionally, the feed layer includes two feeding lines, the two feeding lines are attached to a side, away from the aperture coupling layer, of the third dielectric layer, and are respectively disposed corresponding to the first feeding slot and the second feeding slot; and feeding ports are configured at a location in which the two feeding lines extend to an edge of the third dielectric layer. The two feeding lines are symmetrically disposed based on the diagonal.
Optionally, the two feeding lines are disposed perpendicular to each other; in a direction perpendicular to the feed layer, the two feeding lines are symmetrically distributed based on the middle slot; and the first feeding slot and the second feeding slot are symmetrically distributed based on the middle slot. Specifically, body parts of the two feeding lines are vertically disposed, and feeding port parts of the two feeding lines are kept parallel to each other.
Optionally, the feed layer further includes a fourth dielectric layer, the two feeding lines are disposed on the fourth dielectric layer, and a metal grounding layer is attached to a bottom of the fourth dielectric layer.
Optionally, the antenna is a millimeter wave antenna or a submillimeter wave antenna.
According to a second aspect, a base station is provided, including the foregoing antenna having high isolation and a low cross-polarization level.
The base station provided in this embodiment of this application includes the foregoing antenna having high isolation and a low cross-polarization level, and the foregoing antenna can significantly reduce the cross-polarization level while ensuring relatively good isolation. In this way, transmit power of the base station is ensured, a received signal-to-noise ratio is effectively improved, radiation energy of the antenna is increased, and stable propagation of a signal is ensured.
According to a third aspect, a terminal is provided, including the foregoing antenna having high isolation and a low cross-polarization level.
The terminal provided in this embodiment of this application includes the antenna having high isolation and a low cross-polarization level, and the foregoing antenna can significantly reduce the cross-polarization level while ensuring relatively good isolation. In this way, strength of a received signal of the terminal is ensured, stability of a communication connection between the terminal and an external device is ensured, and product experience of a user is improved.
To describe the technical solutions in embodiments of this application more clearly, the following briefly describes the accompanying drawings for describing embodiments or the conventional technology. It is clear that the accompanying drawings in the following description merely show some embodiments of this application, and a person of ordinary skill in the art can derive other drawings from these accompanying drawings without creative efforts.
The following describes embodiments of this application in detail. Examples of embodiments are shown in the accompanying drawings. Same or similar reference numerals are always used to represent same or similar elements or elements having same or similar functions. Embodiments described below with reference to
In the description of this application, it should be understood that orientation or location relationships indicated by the terms “vertical”, “horizontal”, “away from”, and the like are based on orientation or location relationships shown in the accompanying drawings, and are used only for describing this application and simplifying the description, rather than indicating or implying that an apparatus or an element in question needs to have a specific orientation or needs to be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore cannot be construed as a limitation on this application.
In addition, the terms “first”, “second”, “third”, and “fourth” are merely used for description, and shall not be understood as an indication or implication of relative importance or implicit indication of a quantity of indicated technical features. Therefore, a feature limited by “first”, “second”, “third”, or “fourth” may explicitly or implicitly include one or more features. In the description of this application, “a plurality of” means two or more than two, unless otherwise specifically limited.
In this application, the terms “install”, “connect”, “connection”, “dispose”, and the like should be understood in a broad sense unless otherwise expressly specified and limited. For example, the “connection” may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integrated connection; may be a mechanical connection or an electrical connection; or may be a direct connection, an indirect connection through an intermediate medium, or a connection inside two components or a mutual relationship between two components. A person of ordinary skill in the art may interpret specific meanings of the foregoing terms in this application according to specific cases.
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First, technical terms described in this embodiment of this application are described.
Aperture coupling is electromagnetic coupling formed, by using a feeding line, between two slots that do not contact each other and are slightly spaced and an antenna feeding line.
Cross polarization is a polarization component orthogonal to principal polarization.
Isolation is a spatial loss caused by a spacing between a transmit antenna and a receive antenna.
Tolerance performance is an allowed error or deviation range during processing.
Specifically, the foregoing antenna includes at least one radiation layer 10, a feed layer 30, and an aperture coupling layer 20 disposed between the radiation layer 10 and the feed layer 30. Preferably, there are two radiation layers 10, to improve radiation energy of the antenna and ensure stable propagation of a signal. Refer to
Electromagnetic coupling between the first feeding slot 22 and the second feeding slot 23 and the antenna is formed through contactless feeding, so that the antenna has a standing wave ratio characteristic of a wide frequency band. The middle slot 24 is configured between the first feeding slot 22 and the second feeding slot 23 of the metal sheet 21, so that a boundary condition of the antenna can be changed due to the middle slot 24 without changing a radiation electric field condition of the antenna, to isolate the first feeding slot 22 from the second feeding slot 23. In this way, a current, in a cross-polarization direction, generated on the antenna weakens, to reduce a cross-polarization level. In addition, an energy coupling phenomenon of the antenna is effectively relieved, to significantly improve isolation of the antenna.
A base station provided in an embodiment of this application includes the foregoing antenna having high isolation and a low cross-polarization level, and the foregoing antenna can significantly reduce the cross-polarization level while ensuring relatively good isolation. In this way, transmit power of the base station is increased, a received signal-to-noise ratio is effectively improved, radiation energy of the antenna is increased, and stable propagation of a signal is ensured.
An embodiment of this application further provides a terminal that also includes the foregoing antenna having high isolation and a low cross-polarization level. The terminal in this embodiment of this application includes but is not limited to a camera, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a wearable device, a vehicle-mounted device, an augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) device, a laptop computer, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a netbook, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or the like. A specific type of the terminal is not limited in this embodiment of this application. For ease of description, that a terminal device in this embodiment of this application is a mobile phone is used an example for description. It should be understood that this should not be construed as a limitation on this application.
That the terminal provided in this embodiment of this application is a mobile phone is used an example. The mobile phone includes the antenna having high isolation and a low cross-polarization level, and the antenna can significantly reduce the cross-polarization level while ensuring relatively good isolation. In this way, strength of a signal received by the mobile phone is improved, so that stability of a communication connection between the mobile phone and an external device is improved. From a perspective of user experience, call quality and data transmission stability of the mobile phone are improved, and user product experience is improved.
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Optionally, the first feeding slot 22 and the second feeding slot 23 are symmetrically disposed based on the diagonal 212. In this way, distances of any group of symmetric points of the first feeding slot 22 and the second feeding slot 23 relative to the diagonal 212 are equal, so that boundary conditions of the first feeding slot 22 and the second feeding slot 23 tend to be consistent, to further reduce intensity of a current, in the cross-polarization direction, generated on the antenna.
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Specifically, one or a plurality of middle slots 24 may be located in the first region 213 or the second regions 214. When the plurality of middle slots 24 are located in the first region 213 with relatively high electric field strength, the energy coupling phenomenon may be fully relieved, to significantly improve isolation of the antenna and effectively reduce the cross-polarization level. When the plurality of middle slots 24 are located in the second regions 214 with relatively low electric field strength, the cross-polarization level can be effectively reduced.
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Optionally, one or more middle slots 24 may be located in the first region 213 and the second region 214. In this way, the middle slots 24 can cover a region with relatively low electric field strength in a weak electric field and a region with relatively high electric field strength in the weak electric field. Further, isolation of the antenna is effectively improved and the cross-polarization level is suppressed.
Optionally, when there is one middle slot 24, a length of the middle slot 24 is close to that of the diagonal 212. The length of the middle slot 24 is close to that of the diagonal 212, so that the middle slot 24 can cover most regions that are of a weak electric field and that are distributed along the diagonal 212. In this way, isolation of the antenna is further improved, and the cross-polarization level is further effectively suppressed.
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Optionally, an outline of the middle slot 24 is a rectangle, a circle, an ellipse, or an irregular shape. The outline of the middle slot 24 is a projected outline of the middle slot 24 relative to a feed layer 30, and the outline of the middle slot 24 may match an outline of the first region 213 and/or an outline of the second region 214.
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In some other embodiments of this application, the second dielectric layer 14 is a foam layer or an air layer. Specifically, because each of the foam layer and the air layer has a relatively high dielectric constant and relatively high breakdown field strength, the second dielectric layer 14 is set as the foam layer or the air layer. This means that an insulation protection layer is disposed between the parasitic patch 13 and the radiation patch 12. Therefore, mutual interference between the parasitic patch 13 and the radiation patch 12 is avoided.
Optionally, the second dielectric layer 14 is the foam layer. In this way, the foam layer can provide effective support for the parasitic patch 13, and implement good insulation protection for the parasitic patch 13 and the corresponding radiation patch 12.
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In conclusion, the foregoing description is merely specific implementations of this application, but is not intended to limit the protection scope of this application. Any variation or replacement within the technical scope disclosed in this application shall fall within the protection scope of this application. Therefore, the protection scope of this application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.
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