Ultrawideband characteristics of fractal dipole antennas integrated on Si for ULSI wireless interconnects

Ultrawideband characteristics of Sierpinski carpet fractal antennas fabricated on silicon substrates with the resistivities of 2290, 79.6, and 10 /spl Omega//spl middot/cm were investigated. The return losses lower than -10 dB and high transmission gains of approximately -14 dB were obtained for the antennas with 10-mm distance on the Si substrate with the resistivity of 2290 /spl Omega//spl middot/cm in the frequency range from 18 to 26.5 GHz. Gaussian monocycle pulses with 70 ps pulsewidth were transmitted in the Si substrates successfully and the corresponding voltage gains were -23, -26, and -39 dB for the Si resistivities of 2290, 79.6, and 10 /spl Omega//spl middot/cm, respectively.     

机动甚低频天线性能的矩量法结合复像法的研究

提出一种加载机动甚低频天线的方式,对加载参数进行了优化.采用矩量法结合修正的镜像法,分析了加载后的天线在有耗地面上的辐射性能,提高了计算速度.仿真计算及模型实验结果表明,理论上通过合适的加载可改变电流分布,增加天线辐射电阻,提高天线效率.     

Modeling of fractal antennas

Results on the numerical analysis of the Sierpinski and Koch fractal antennas are presented. It is shown that self-similarity of fractal structures affects electromagnetic properties of antenna structures created on the basis of these fractals. It is demonstrated that the Sierpinski and Koch fractal antennas are multiband structures; therefore, these antennas can be used for the development of radar and telecommunications systems. A technique is proposed for generation of an irregular determinate fractal structure that can be used for the development of a frequency-independent fractal antenna.     

Subpicosecond photoconducting dipole antennas

Photoconducting antennas have been demonstrated which are capable of generating and coherently detecting subpicosecond electrical pulses. These antennas, when illuminated with femtosecond optical pulses, radiate electrical pulses which have frequency spectra that extend from <100 GHz to >2 THz. Microscope dipoles measuring 50, 100, and 200 μm have been fabricated and tested. Integrated photoconductors of radiation-damaged silicon-on-sapphire were used both for impulsive current excitation of the transmitting antennas as well as for gating the receiving antennas     

A simple formula of current in dipole antennas

A simple and quantitatively accurate representation of the current distribution in a dipole antenna is derived. Numerical data are given and are found to be in good agreement with the experiment whenh geq O.15lambda.     

Optimization of log-periodic dipole antennas

It is shown that a log-periodic dipole antenna can be optimized by varying the feed-line characteristic impedance while carrying out swept-frequency far-field and impedance measurements. The minimization of narrow-band anomalies in the measured quantities results in a well-defined optimum characteristic impedance.     

On the relationship between fractal dimension and the performance of multi-resonant dipole antennas using Koch curves

This paper relates for the first time, multiple resonant frequencies of fractal element antennas using Koch curves to their fractal dimension. Dipole and monopole antennas based fractal Koch curves studied so far have generally been limited to certain standard configurations of the geometry. It is possible to generalize the geometry by changing its indentation angle, to vary its fractal similarity dimension. This variation results in self-similar geometry which can be generated by a recursive algorithm. Such a variation is found to have a direct influence on the input characteristics of dipole antennas. The primary resonant frequency, the input resistance at this resonance, and the ratio of first two resonant frequencies, have all been directly related to the fractal dimension. Curve-fit expressions can also be obtained for the performance of antennas at their primary resonance, in terms of fractal iteration and fractal dimension. The antenna characteristics have been studied using extensive numerical simulations and are experimentally verified. These findings underscore the significance of fractal dimension as an important mathematical property of fractals that can be used as a design parameter for antennas. The use of these ideas would not only reduce the computational intensity of optimization approaches for design of fractal shaped antennas, but also help antenna designers approach the problem systematically. Design formulation for antennas based on other fractal geometries can be similarly obtained after identifying suitable parameters of variation. This would therefore help analytical design of multiband and multifunctional antennas using fractal geometries.     

Travelling wave microstrip dipole antennas

While it is a common antenna, the unloaded conducting microstrip dipole suffers from a very limited bandwidth because it is a resonant structure supporting a standing wave of current. The authors present the characteristics of a microstrip dipole modified to behave like a travelling wave structure     

Backfire antennas with dipole elements

A method is set up for a theoretical investigation of arbitrary backfire antennas based upon dipole structures. The mutual impedance between the dipole elements of the antenna is taken into account, and the field radiated due to a surface wave reflector of finite extent is determined by calculating the surface current distribution on the reflector plate. Numerical results obtained for Yagi backfire antennas and short-backfire antennas using this theory are compared with experimental results.     

Broadband calculable dipole reference antennas

A broadband calculable standard dipole antenna has been developed, with an uncertainty in the antenna factor (AF) of better than ±0.15 dB at the resonant frequency, f_res, in the frequency range 30 to 500 MHz and ±0.2 dB in the range 600 MHz to 1 GHz. For broadband operation of the dipole resonant at 60 MHz the uncertainty is ±0.2 dB over a range 0.33 f_res to 1.83 f_res. These uncertainties have been validated by close agreement of the measured insertion loss between dipole antennas above a conducting ground plane, with the loss predicted by analytical and numerical methods. The AF measured by the two-antenna method also agrees with the calculated AF. The technique was applied to reference monopole antennas for which AF was determined to an uncertainty of ±0.2 dB over the frequency range 10-100 MHz. The key achievements are: the construction of a very large and flat ground plane, validation of numerical versus analytical calculations of impedance and effective length of resonant dipoles, excellent agreement between measurements and method-of-moments calculations of the coupling between resonant dipoles, good agreement over a broad bandwidth, careful design of antennas and supports, and precision measurements     

Moment-method solution of directed dipole antennas

A range of directed dipole antennas is analysed for interdipole spacing of 0.10?, 0.15?, 0.20? and 0.25?, using driven and parasitic conductors of any length between 0.40? and 0.58?, and of both equal and unequal radius.     

Asymmetry phenomenon of log-periodic dipole antennas

The existence of asymmetric resonant modes on standard log-periodic dipole antennas is established experimentally. These modes are characterized by sharply-resonant side radiation sometimes accompanied by reduction in front-lobe gain. The resonances occur at frequencies whose relationship is approximately log-periodic. In a single antenna the resonant modes are excited by any structural asymmetry, while in anE-plane array each individual antenna excites the others asymmetrically. The resonances can be eliminated by the addition of lossy material to appropriate parts of the antenna. Qualitatively the phenomenon is explained in terms of transmission-line resonances along the two-wire lines formed by adjacent dipoles. Automated swept-frequency far-field measurement techniques were employed throughout, and their worth is clearly established for broadband antenna research and development.     

Study of compressed log-periodic dipole antennas

The behavior of log-periodic dipole (LPD) antennas, which are compressed along the transmission-line axis, is studied both experimentally and theoretically. Compressed LPD antennas are found to be efficient, of low gain, and frequency independent. With compression, the radiation pattern approaches dipole-like behavior and the bandwidth increases slightly. It is also found that LPD antennas exhibit anomalous frequency-dependent behavior in narrow bands of frequencies (approx 1/8of a log period in width) when a reactive termination is used and when the scaling factortauis below about 0.92-0.93.     

Shortening ratios of modified dipole antennas

Two types of modified dipole antennas, zigzag and meander-line types, are analyzed and the shortening ratios are calculated. A zigzag dipole antenna with a wire length of 0.58 wavelengths has a shortening ratio of 24 percent with a resonant resistance of46 Omega. A meander-line dipole antenna with a wire length of 0.70 wavelengths has a shortening ratio of 30 percent with a resonant resistance of43 Omega. It is found that the radiation patterns of these two types of antennas are similar to the radiation pattern of a conventional half-wave linear dipole antenna.     

Genetically engineered multiband fractal antennas

Fractal antenna engineering concepts have been successfully combined with genetic algorithms to develop a powerful design optimisation tool. The genetic optimisation approach developed can simultaneously optimise the geometry of a fractal antenna, locations of loads, component values of loads, and projected length of the fractal antenna. The results suggest that a 30 to 55% size reduction can be achieved by optimising the fractalisation of a given antenna. The knowledge gained from this study is directly applicable to the design of miniature multiband fractal antennas     

A numerical-analytic method for solving integral equations of dipole antennas

A new numerical-analytic method is proposed for solving integral equations of dipole antennas. The high efficiency of the method is demonstrated in examples.     

A closed-form solution of vertical dipole antennas above adielectric half-space

This paper derives a convenient closed-form expression for the input impedance of a vertical antenna above a dielectric half-space. The expression is obtained from the induced electromotive force (EMF) method using a complex-image spatial Green's function. It is found that the effect of the dielectric half-space can be modeled by a short image array of three to five complex image antennas. Numerical results verify the accuracy and convenience of the method for a vertical antenna at any height above a dielectric half-space with and without loss     

Optimal design of multiply fed dipole antennas

The gain of a mulitply fed dipole antenna of lengthL, small radiusaand arbitrary locations of feed voltages along the antenna is computed using the well-known moment method. An optimization routine is then employed to study the possibility of maximizing the gain in a specified angular direction and minimizing it at other directions for any given number of excitations and antenna length in order to determine the optimum complex values and location of each source. The results are presented in tables and graphs for a wide range of antenna length and number of feeds. It is shown that both the gain and beamwidth are improved by this technique at the expense of appearance of new sidelobes and requirement to design a more complicated feed network. The Fourier series expansion method is extended in order to determine the gain of a multiply fed wire antenna, and the results for the radiation pattern show good agreement with those based on the moment method.     

DIRECTIVITY OPTIMIZATION OF CURVED SURFACE DIPOLE ANTENNAS

Based on the calculation of the characteristic parameters by moment method, the curved surface dipoles are optimized by an optimization method, the maximum directivities of some V-curved and Gauss-curved surface dipoles are given.