Received March 15, 2019, accepted April 2, 2019, date of publication April 9, 2019, date of current version April

25, 2019.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2909771

Integration Design of Millimeter-Wave Filtering

Patch Antenna Array With SIW Four-Way
Anti-Phase Filtering Power Divider
HUAYAN JIN 1 , (Member, IEEE), GUO QING LUO 1 , (Member, IEEE), WENLEI WANG1 ,
WENQUAN CHE 2 , (Senior Member, IEEE), AND KUO-SHENG CHIN 3 , (Senior Member, IEEE)
1 Key Laboratory of RF Circuits and System, Institute of Antennas and Microwave Technology, Ministry of Education, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou
310018, China
2 School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
3 Department of Electronic Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan

Corresponding author: Guo Qing Luo (luoguoqing@[Link])

This work was supported in part by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant LQ18F010003, and in part
by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Contract 61722107.

ABSTRACT In this paper, the integration design of a millimeter-wave filtering patch antenna array
fed by a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) four-way anti-phase filtering power divider is proposed.
The multilayer four-way anti-phase filtering power divider handily implemented using the intrinsic field
distribution of TE20 -mode in SIW is proposed for miniaturization. The signal of the lower substrate integrated
waveguide cavity (SIWC) bandpass filter is directly coupled to the upper TE20 -mode SIW through a coupling
slot. The intrinsic field distribution of TE20 -mode SIW is used to generate anti-phase signals. This filtering
power divider can be utilized as the feeding structure of a millimeter-wave filtering antenna array. To verify
the design concept, a 28-GHz SIW-fed 1 × 4 filtering patch antenna array with three-layer substrates
is designed and fabricated. The measured results show a fractional bandwidth of 5.03% ranging from
27.15 to 28.55 GHz, a peak gain of 11.1 dBi, cross-polarization levels lower than -20 dB, symmetric radiation
patterns in both E-plane and H -plane, and high selectivity.

INDEX TERMS Dual-slot-fed patch, filtering antenna array, millimeter-wave antenna array, substrate
integrated waveguide (SIW), TE 20 -mode.

I. INTRODUCTION There have been extensive investigations on filtering anten-

The rapid development of modern wireless and mobile com- nas [3]–[7]. In [3], one filtering antenna, also called as ‘‘fil-
munication industries proposes stringent requirements on the tenna’’, is constructed by a horn antenna and an X-band
RF front-end systems with compact size, high-efficiency and bandpass frequency selective surface. A high-gain filter-
good stability. Multifunctional components such as balun ing patch antenna operating at the band of LTE (Long
bandpass filter [1], filtering power dividers [2], and filter- term evolution) without extra filtering circuits was pre-
ing antennas [3], [4], have received increasing attentions sented in [4]. In [5], one X-band filtering aperture antenna
due to their advantages of compact size and low insertion array was designed using rectangular waveguide structures.
loss. Traditionally, the bandpass filter and antenna, which Three-dimensional filtering slot antenna realized at Ka-band
are two key components in the RF-front ends, are designed using substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) technique was
individually and then combined by matching networks. This proposed in [6]. In [7], an SIW-based circularly-polarized
design is not appropriate to circuit miniaturization and will filtering patch antenna array was proposed around X-band.
add extra insertion losses. Filtering antennas, which combine Although the above filtering antennas achieve good filtering
the separated antenna and filter into one, can perform filtering response, few of them operate at millimeter-wave (MMW)
response in both the reflection coefficient and realized gain, band.
for size and loss reduction. Power dividers, especially multi-way power dividers, are
The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and indispensable parts to the design of antenna arrays. Vari-
approving it for publication was Xiaojie Su. ous multi-way power dividers were presented in [8]–[10].
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Bandpass filter is another important device in RF systems to The implemented filtering antenna array shows superior fil-
reject unwanted signals. These two devices are generally cas- tering response, flat in-band gain curve, and high out-of-band
caded in the feed networks of antenna arrays. This is the sim- suppression.
plest method to construct a filtering power divider, but often
at the cost of increasing the size and degrading the in-band II. FOUR-WAY ANTI-PHASE SIW FILTERING
performance of antennas. To overcome such shortcomings, POWER DIVIDER
the designs of filtering power dividers with low insertion As it is well known, the differential circuits have the ability
loss, compact size, and low cost were developed [11]–[13]. to reject common-mode noise compared to single-ended cir-
However, most of the previous works are based on microstrip cuits. Furthermore, differential-fed antennas can also reduce
structures, which may suffer from high insertion loss in cross polarization and improve radiation pattern symme-
MMW systems. SIW structures featuring low insertion losses try [17]. For the design of differential-fed antenna arrays, the
and high power handling capacities have been widely used anti-phase feed network is required.
in various MMW circuits [14]–[16]. However, SIW power In conventional SIW-based structures, an anti-phase fil-
dividers with multi-ways have the disadvantages of large size tering power divider is composed by cascade connection of
due to an increased number of ports, and may suffer with power dividers, bandpass filters, and phase shifters, which
poor impedance matching at all ports [9]. The development of will suffer from high loss, large size, and complexity. A com-
MMW SIW multi-way filtering power divider and its appli- pact multilayer four-way anti-phase power divider handily
cation are rarely reported. Because of the influence of small implemented a coupling slot and the intrinsic field distribu-
size and serious parasitic effects on MMW antenna designs, tion of TE20 mode SIW is proposed in this work.
how to combine the filtering, power-dividing, and radiating
structures into antennas for achieving multifunction is chal- A. ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
lenging. At present, the frequency bands of the published Fig. 2 shows the configuration of the proposed SIW four-
filtering antenna designs were mostly below 6 GHz. Very few way anti-phase filtering power divider. It consists of a cou-
MMW-band antenna arrays with the differential feed network pling slot, a third-order TE110 -mode SIWC bandpass filter,
were developed for filtering response, high gain, low cross a TE20 -mode SIW, and microstrip feed lines. The coupling
polarization, and symmetric radiation patterns, which are the slot, SIWC bandpass filter, and TE20 -mode SIW are imple-
focus of this work. mented together to obtain filtering response and four-way
anti-phase outputs. Note that the four output ports of Port

FIGURE 1. 3-D view of the proposed millimeter-wave filtering patch

antenna array.

In this paper, the integration design of a MMW filtering

patch antenna array is proposed, as shown in Fig. 1. It consists
of a novel compact SIW four-way anti-phase filtering power
divider and two series-fed 1 × 2 patch antenna sub-arrays.
The proposed SIW filtering power divider is handily imple-
mented using the opposite current directions along a coupling
slot and the intrinsic field distribution of TE20 mode SIW
to achieve compact size. It also achieves excellent filtering
characteristic, impedance matching at all ports, and ampli-
tude balance at the output ports by integrating a SIWC (SIW
cavity) bandpass filter and TE20 -mode SIW feed lines. This
power divider can directly connect the sub-arrays through FIGURE 2. Configuration of the proposed SIW four-way anti-phase
TE20 -mode SIW without any impedance matching networks. filtering power divider: (a) 3-D view and (b) Top view.

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2−Port 5 are used only for the performance evaluation, which respectively, c is the light velocity of free space, a and b are
can be removed in the final array design. The |S21 | 3-dB the width and length of the SIW cavity, respectively, and dv
bandwidth ranging from 27.22 to 29.15 GHz is designed and pv are the diameter of metalized via holes and center-
in this work for 5G wireless applications, which requires a to-center pitch between two adjacent via holes, respectively.
fractional bandwidth of 6.8%. When selecting a third-order The final dimensions of the SIWC are determined by the
maximally flat response and fractional bandwidth of 6.8%, optimized S-parameter responses, which give a = 6.15 mm
the corresponding coupling coefficients and external quality and b = 4.4 mm.
factor for the SIWC bandpass filter are M12 = M23 =
0.048 and Qe = 14.71, respectively, where Mij is the coupling
coefficient between the ith and jth cavities. Fig. 3 shows the
design curve of coupling coefficient of the SIWC bandpass
filter, which can be used to determine the window length L
according to the required Mij .

FIGURE 3. Coupling coefficient of the SIWC bandpass filter.

FIGURE 4. (a) The electric field amplitude distribution and (b) the current
The power divider is designed with two-layer substrates distribution of TE20 -mode SIW and the microstrip lines.

and optimized by the full-wave EM simulator Ansoft HFSS.

The Rogers 4003C (εr = 3.55 and tanδ = 0.0029 at 10 GHz) The electric field and current distributions of the
with a thickness of 0.5 mm was used for the upper TE20 -mode TE20 -mode SIW and the microstrip lines are shown in
SIW, while the Rogers RT/Duroid 5880 (εr = 2.22 and Figs. 4(a) and 4(b), respectively. As indicated in Fig. 4,
tanδ = 0.0009 at 10 GHz) with a thickness of 0.254 mm was the amplitude distribution of the electric field is symmetric
used for the lower SIWC bandpass filter. A common ground with respect to the AA’ line, whereas the current distribution
plane with a coupling slot was inserted between the two shows odd symmetric with respect to the AA’ line. Therefore,
substrates. The input signal from Port 1 propagates along the the TE20 mode on each side of the SIW can support differen-
third-order SIWC bandpass filter, and then is directly coupled tial signals with same amplitude and opposite phase.
to the upper TE20 -mode SIW from the third resonant cavity
without any additional structures and equally divided into
B. SIMULATED RESULTS
two TE20 -mode signals. The coupling slot located along the
longitudinal center of the TE20 -mode SIW line is in charge to A millimeter-wave SIW four-way anti-phase filtering power
generate the TE20 -mode field distribution. The intrinsic field divider is designed according to the aforementioned method
distribution of TE20 -mode in SIW can be used to construct for operating at 28 GHz. The detailed dimensions are listed
four-way anti-phase signals. in Table 1. Fig. 5(a) shows the simulated S-parameter mag-
The SIWC bandpass filter is constructed by three SIW cav- nitudes of the filtering power divider. This divider exhibits
ities operating at the TE110 dominant mode, whose resonant a fractional bandwidth of 4.8% at 28.17 GHz ranging from
frequency can be determined by [18]: 27.49 to 28.85 GHz with the reflection coefficient less
s than -15 dB. The same S-parameter magnitudes of the four
π 2 π 2 output ports with maximally flat responses are observed
  
c
f110 = √ + (1) due to the symmetric structure. Fig. 5(b) shows the phase
2π µr εr Weff Leff
responses of the output ports. As indicated, the Port 2 and
dv2 dv2
Weff = a − , Leff = b − (2) Port 4 (Port 3 and Port 5) are in-phase and the Port 2 and Port 3
0.95pv 0.95pv (Port 4 and Port 5) are 180◦ out of phase. The amplitude and
where f110 denotes the eigenmode frequency, εr and µr are phase imbalances of the output ports are less than 0.2 dB and
the relative permittivity and permeability of the substrate, 180◦ ±1◦ , respectively.

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A. SERIES-FED 1 × 2 SUB-ARRAY
Figs. 6(a) and 6(b) show the configuration of the pro-
posed 1 × 2 TE20 -mode SIW series-fed sub-array, which
is designed with two-layer Rogers 4003C (εr = 3.55 and
tanδ = 0.0029 at 10 GHz) substrates with a thickness
of 0.5 mm. Fig. 6(c) illustrates the current distribution on
the dual-slot-fed patch elements with TM10 -mode excitation

FIGURE 5. Simulated S parameters of the proposed TE20 -mode SIW

four-way anti-phase filtering power divider: (a) Magnitudes and (b) phase
differences between the output ports.

TABLE 1. Dimensions of the filtering power divider (in mm).

III. INTEGRATION DESIGN OF THE MILLIMETER-WAVE

FILTERING PATCH ANTENNA ARRAY
A millimeter-wave 1 × 4 TE20 -mode SIW dual-slot-fed
patch antenna array integrated with the proposed filter-
ing power divider is designed to achieve high selectivity.
Two series-fed 1 × 2 sub-arrays are used to construct the
1 × 4 patch antenna array. The filtering power divider is
implemented in the center underneath the two sub-arrays,
as shown in Fig. 1. The TE20 -mode SIW dual-slot-fed
patch structure [19], which features wider bandwidth and
higher gain than the conventional TE10 single-slot-fed patch
antennas, is adopted in this work. The detailed designs of
FIGURE 6. Configuration of the TE20 -mode SIW series-fed 1 × 2 sub-array
the 1 × 2 sub-arrays and the 1 × 4 filtering patch antenna with dual-slot-fed patch elements: (a) 3-D view, (b) top view, and
array are explained as follows. (c) current distribution on the dual-slot-fed patch elements.

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TABLE 2. Dimensions of The Filtering Powered divider (in mm). 1 × 2 sub-arrays. In order to improve the deterioration of the
H-plane radiation pattern caused by the series-fed structure,
two 1 × 2 sub-arrays are mirror-arranged by using a parallel
feed with the filtering power divider in the middle underneath
them.

FIGURE 8. Simulated |S11 | and gain curves of the proposed filtering

1 × 4 antenna array and a reference 1 × 4 antenna array without the
filtering power divider, and the |S11 | and |S21 | responses of the
proposed filtering power divider.

Fig. 8 shows the simulated |S11 | responses and gain curves

of the proposed filtering 1 × 4 antenna array and a reference
1 × 4 antenna array without the filtering power divider, and
the |S11 | and |S21 | responses of the proposed filtering power
divider. As indicated, the gain curve of the proposed filtering
antenna array has similar roll-off characteristic to the |S21 |
response of the proposed filtering power divider, in which
the difference of in-band levels between the two curves cor-
FIGURE 7. Simulated results of the proposed TE20 -mode SIW series-fed responds to the directivity of the antenna array. A -10-dB
1 × 2 sub-array: (a) |S11 | and (b) radiation patterns at 28 GHz.
impedance bandwidth of 5.4% ranging from 27.48 to 29 GHz
is achieved, which is slightly wider than that of the filter-
ing power divider. The peak gain of 13.5 dBi is obtained
at 28 GHz. The detailed dimensions are listed in Table 2. at 28 GHz. The flat gain curve is observed and the gain
Fig. 7(a) shows the simulated reflection coefficient |S11 | of variation is less than 0.4 dB in the passband. Fig. 9 shows the
the 1 × 2 sub-array, which has an impedance bandwidth of simulated radiation patterns at 28 GHz. Due to the symmetric
9.95% (26.25−29 GHz) with the reflection coefficient less parallel-series feed structure, the 1 × 4 array can achieve
than −10 dB. The simulated gain at 28 GHz is 12.3 dBi. symmetric radiation patterns and low cross-polarization lev-
Fig. 7(b) shows the radiation patterns of the 1 × 2 sub-array els less than -40 dB in both E-plane and H-plane.
at 28 GHz. The E-plane co-polarization radiation pattern
is symmetric due to the symmetric dual-slot feeding struc- IV. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
ture, whereas the peak gain of the H-plane co-polarization To verify the design, a prototype of filtering 1 × 4 array was
radiation pattern is slightly deviated from 0◦ caused by the fabricated and measured, as illustrated in Fig. 10. For the
series-fed structure. The cross-polarization levels are lower cost issue, the proposed three-layer circuits were fabricated
than -30 dB in both E-plane and H-plane. individually and then assembled together by screws. A steel
support is used to screw the separated circuit boards and the
B. 1 × 4 FILTERING PATCH ANTENNA ARRAY edge-fed SMA connector. The total size is 33 × 27 mm2 .
The integrated 1 × 4 parallel-series-fed filtering patch
antenna array is shown in Fig. 1. The overall structure occu- A. IMPEDANCE BANDWIDTH AND RADIATION GAIN
pies three substrates. The SIW four-way anti-phase filtering Fig. 11 shows the simulated and measured broadside
power divider provides two-way TE20 -mode signals with gain curves and |S11 | responses of the proposed filtering
filtering response, which can be used to excite the series-fed 1 × 4 patch antenna array. The superior reflection coefficient

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FIGURE 9. Simulated radiation patterns of the proposed 1 × 4 filtering FIGURE 11. Comparison of the measured and simulated gain curves and
antenna array at 28 GHz. |S11 | responses of the proposed 1 × 4 filtering patch antenna array.

FIGURE 10. Photograph of the fabricated PCB-based 1 × 4 filtering

antenna array: (a) Expanded view and (b) assembled view.

and high selectivity are achieved around 28 GHz. The mea-

sured impedance bandwidth is 5.03% (27.15−28.55 GHz).
The measured gain is above 10 dBi from 27.2 to 28 GHz with
a peak gain of 11.1 dBi at 27.6 GHz. The in-band gain curve is
flat and degrades rapidly in out-of-band with high selectivity.
The measured center frequency and bandwidth are slightly FIGURE 12. Simulated and measured radiation patterns at
decreased from the simulated results due to the possible 28 GHz: (a) E-plane and (b) H-plane.

small air gaps existing between two substrates and the uncer-
tain permittivity of the substrates in millimeter-wave band,
which can be improved by adopting accurate multi-layer PCB the symmetric filtering power divider, the radiation patterns
or LTCC fabrication process with a certain permittivity of of the array are symmetric in both E-plane and H-plane. The
substrates. measured cross-polarization levels are below −20 dB in both
E-plane and H-plane. The deviation in cross-polarization and
B. RADIATION PATTERNS side-lobe levels from the simulated results is mainly due to
Fig. 12 shows the simulated and measured radiation patterns the unbalanced steel support and SMA connector and the
of the proposed filtering 1 × 4 array at 28 GHz. Owing to fabrication tolerance.

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TABLE 3. Comparison with previously reported filtering antenna arrays.

The proposed 1 × 4 antenna array can achieve high selectiv-

ity, symmetric radiation patterns, and low cross-polarization
level in millimeter-wave band.

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HUAYAN JIN was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, in 2003.
China, in 1989. She received the B.S. degree In 1999, she was a Research Assistant with the
in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree City University of Hong Kong. In 2002, she was a
in electromagnetic field and microwave technol- Visiting Scholar with the Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
ogy from the Nanjing University of Science and She has been with NUST, from 1995 to 2018, as a Lecturer, Associate
Technology (NUST), Nanjing, China, in 2011 and Professor, and then a Full Professor. She was the Executive Dean of Elite
2017, respectively. Education College, NUST, from 2013 to 2018. She is currently a Full Pro-
From 2012 to 2014, she was an Exchange Stu- fessor with the South China University of Technology. From 2007 to 2008,
dent with Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Tai- she has conducted academic research with the Institute of High Frequency
wan. She is currently a Lecturer with the School Technology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. She was
of Electronics and Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, with the City University of Hong Kong, as a Research Fellow and a Visiting
China. Her main research interests include millimeter-wave antennas, Professor, from 2005 to 2006 and from 2009 to 2016, respectively. She
differential-fed antennas, and filtering antennas. She serves as a Reviewer has authored or coauthored more than 250 internationally refereed journal
for the IEEE ACCESS, IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, IET papers and more than 100 international conference papers. Her current
Electronics Letters, and the International Journal of Electronics. research interests include microwave and millimeter-wave circuits and sys-
tems, microwave monolithic integrated circuits, antenna technologies, and
the medical applications of microwave technologies.
GUO QING LUO (M’08) received the B.S. degree Dr. Che is currently an Elected Member of the IEEE MTT-S AdCom, from
from the China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 2018 to 2020. She was a recipient of the 2007 Humboldt Research Fellowship
China, in 2000, the M.S. degree from Northwest from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany, the fifth China
Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 2003, Young Female Scientists Award, in 2008, and the Distinguished Young
and the Ph.D. degree from Southeast University, Scientist Award from the National Natural Science Foundation Committee
Nanjing, China, in 2007. of China, in 2012. She has been a Reviewer of IET Microwaves, Anten-
Since 2007, he has been a Lecturer with the nas and Propagation. She is currenlty an Associate Editor of the IEEE
Faculty of School of Electronics and Information, Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biol-
Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China, ogy. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Microwave and Optical Technology
where he was promoted as a Professor, in 2011. Letters, from 2019 to 2022. She is a Reviewer of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS
ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS
From 2013 to 2014, he was with the Department of Electrical, Electronic
AND PROPAGATION, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, and the
and Computer Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K., as a
Research Associate, where he was involved in developing low profile IEEE MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS COMPONENTS LETTERS.
antennas for UAV applications. He has authored or coauthored more than
90 technical papers in refereed journals and conferences. He holds 16 patents.
His current research interests include RF, microwave and mm-wave passive
devices, antennas, and frequency selective surfaces.
Dr. Luo was a recipient of the CST University Publication Award, in 2007,
the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China, in 2009, and the KUO-SHENG CHIN (S’05–M’06–SM’15) rece-
National Natural Science Award (Second Class) of China, in 2016. He has ived the B.S. degree in electrical engineering
served as the Organizing Committee Chair for the 2011 China-Japan Joint from the Chung Cheng Institute of Technology,
Microwave Conference (CJMW 2011), the TPC Chair for the 2017 National Taoyuan, Taiwan, in 1986, the M.S.E.E. degree
Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Waves (NCMMW 2017), and from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA,
a TPC Chair for the 2018 U.K.-Europe-China Workshop on Millimeter in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in communication
Waves and Terahertz Technologies (UCMMT 2018). He is the Chair of engineering from National Chiao Tung University,
the Hangzhou Chapter, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2005.
He also serves a Reviewer for many technical journals, including the IEEE From 1986 to 2005, he was with the Chung Shan
TRANSACTIONS ANTENNAS PROPAGATION, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE Institute of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, as a
THEORY AND TECHNIQUES, the IEEE ANTENNAS WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS, Research Assistant, after becoming an Assistant Scientist, and then an Asso-
the IEEE MICROWAVE WIRELESS COMPONENT LETTERS, and the IEEE ACCESS. ciate Scientist. He joined Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, in 2006, as a

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Faculty Member, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of Near Field Characterization and Imaging, in 2009, the Honorable Paper
Electronic Engineering. His current research interests include microwave Award from the International High Speed Intelligent Communication Forum,
and millimeter-wave circuits, low-temperature cofired ceramic circuits, array in 2010, the Best Student Paper Award from the International Symposium
antennas, frequency-selective surfaces, radomes, and electromagnetic pulse on Next-Generation Electronics, in 2014, the Best Paper Award from the
research. He was a recipient of the Medal of Excellent Efficiency, the Order Taiwan Precision Engineering Workshop, in 2016, and the Best Student
of Loyalty and Diligence, the Medal of Outstanding Staff, A Class, and the Paper Award from the International Symposium on InfoComm and Mecha-
Medal of Army Achievement, A Class, all from the Ministry of National tronics Technology in Bio-Medical and Healthcare Applications, in 2018.
Defense, Taiwan. He has supervised a student team to win first place in He serves as a Reviewer for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY
the 2009 National Electromagnetism Application Innovation Competition, AND TECHNIQUES, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION,
Taiwan. He was selected as a recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPONENTS, PACKAGING AND MANUFACTURING
from Chang Gung University, in 2014. He was one of the recipients of the TECHNOLOGY.
Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Electromagnetic

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