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An investigation of a novel cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) configuration has been carried out. It is shown that two resonances including the full- and half-cylindrical HE11δ-like modes can coexist simultaneously at different frequencies by placing a metallic post array in the resonator. Moreover, compared with the conventional HE11δ mode cylindrical DRA having the same size, the proposed antenna operates in lower frequency band and shows improved bandwidth. The experimental results including the return loss and the radiation patterns are demonstrated.
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