Patent ID: 8749434

Claim:
A dielectric resonator antenna, comprising: a multi-layer substrate on which a plurality of insulating layers and conductor layers are alternately stacked; a first conductor plate that has an opening part at the center of the upper portion of a top-most insulating layer of the multi-layer substrate; a second conductor plate that is formed on the lower portion of a bottom-most insulating layer, the insulating layers being formed with at least two stacked layers and are disposed, at the center of a position corresponding to the opening part; a first plurality of metal via holes that electrically connect each layer between the top insulating layer and the bottom insulating layer and vertically penetrate through the multi-layer substrate to form a metal interface surface in a vertical direction around the periphery of the opening part of the first conductor plate at a predetermined interval; a feeding part including a feeding line to apply a high-frequency signal to the dielectric resonator embedded in the multi-layer substrate in a shape of a cavity by a metal interface surface formed with the first conductor plate, the second conductor plate, and the first plurality of metal via holes; and, a matching substrate that is stacked on the first conductor plate so as to cover the opening part and is stacked with at least one insulating layer; wherein the matching substrate includes a third plurality of via holes that vertically penetrate through the matching substrate; wherein the dielectric resonator does not have patch antennas; wherein the first conductor plate and the second conductor plate are electrically connected to each other through the first plurality of the metal via holes; wherein the second conductor plate are directly contacted with the first plurality of metal via holes; wherein the dielectric resonator body part includes a conductor pattern part inserted in the dielectric resonator to form the metal interface surface in a vertical direction intersecting with the feeding line; wherein the dielectric constant of the matching substrate is smaller than that of the multi-layer substrate and is larger than that of air; wherein the matching substrate removes a reflected wave occurred on the interface surface between the dielectric resonator body part embedded in the multi layer substrate having the high dielectric constant and the air having the low dielectric constant so as to increase a bandwidth; and wherein the conductor pattern part removes a tangential field of an electric field formed on the dielectric resonator body part and keeps a normal field at the time of the double resonance.