Low profile planar dipole antenna

The design and experimental results of a low profile planar dipole antenna with effective channel bandwidth are presented. The matching network of the design with a wider bandwidth tapered microstrip line to overlap the coplanar stripline transition that only provided unbalance to the balanced line created balanced equal power output and phase difference characteristics for the balanced feed dipole element.     

Ultra-wideband microstrip-fed planar elliptical dipole antenna

A small planar elliptical dipole antenna designed for ultra-wideband applications is proposed. With trimmed elliptical radiation patches and microstrip-coupled feeding structure, it exhibits excellent broadband behaviours and radiation patterns similar to those of a conventional dipole antenna. The simulated and measured results are in good agreement.     

一种水平全向平面偶极子阵列天线

基于偶极子组阵结构,设计了一种具有水平全向辐射方向图和水平极化特性的平面天线。该天线由3只偶极子天线组成,每只振子弯折30°并上下交错印刷在PCB板的表面上,构成正六边形环,环的直径为0.45λ0(λ0为中心频率处的自由空间波长)。3只偶极子天线均采用SMA接头直接顶馈,从而省略了偶极子天线的馈电巴伦。通过优化偶极子天线振子长度和间距等结构参数,以及控制馈电相位,实现水平全向辐射。设计和加工制作了一只工作频率为2.45 GHz的天线样品,测试与仿真结果吻合良好,其|S11|≤10 dB的相对阻抗带宽为12.94%(2.367~2.684 GHz),水平全向增益约为1.42 dBi,不圆度小于±0.7 dB。     

偶极板天线设计原理与实践

系统地描述了偶极板天线水平和垂直方向性函数,介绍了偶极板天线的主要参数选择原则,讨论了两种常用的波束下倾和零点填充方案,提出了总体设计中必须注意的问题。     

Design of an efficient miniaturized UHF planar antenna

The design aspects and the measured results of a novel miniaturized planar antenna are described. Such architectural antenna design is of great importance in mobile military communications where low visibility and high mobility are required. Slot radiating elements, having a planar geometry and capable of transmitting vertical polarization when placed nearly horizontal, are appropriate for the applications at hand. Slot antennas also have another useful property, so far as impedance matching is concerned. Basically, slot dipoles can easily be excited by a microstrip line and can be matched to arbitrary line impedances simply by moving the feed point along the slot. Antenna miniaturization can be achieved by using a high permittivity or permeability substrate and superstrate materials and/or using an appropriate antenna topology. We demonstrate miniaturization by designing an appropriate geometry for a resonant narrow slot antenna. A very efficient radiating element that occupies an area as small as 0.12/spl lambda//sub 0//spl times/0.12/spl lambda//sub 0/ is designed and tested. Simulation results, as well as the measured input impedance and radiation patterns of this antenna, are presented. This structure shows a measured gain of 0.5 dBi on FR4 substrate, which has a loss-tangent of the order of 0.01. Also, the effect of finite ground plane size on gain and resonant frequency is investigated experimentally.     

Switching noise picked up by a planar dipole antenna mounted nearintegrated circuits

For applications in which antennas are located near or in integrated circuits (ICs), the switching noise from digital circuits can interfere with the operation of antennas. This paper presents a study of the switching noise picked up by a planar dipole antenna from a divide-by-128 IC located near the antenna. To develop understanding of the measurement results, a lumped-element simulation model has been developed. Quantitative agreements between the measurements and simulations for numerous experiments have been obtained. The measurements indicate that by selecting the signal frequency on the antennas much greater than the circuit frequency, the immunity from switching noise can be improved. The measurements also showed that circuits such as buffers are relatively noisier, and emanate more noise at higher operating frequencies. Finally, the measurements showed that using antennas with a differential or balanced feed structure can substantially reduce the coupling of switching noise (~20 dB) which is mostly common-mode in nature     

Unidirectional dipole antenna

A new small unidirectional wire antenna, useful for an indoor television receiving antenna, has been developed for use in the v.h.f. band. This antenna consists of two closely spaced dipoles. This letter describes the principle involved and introduces the equations for input impedance and gain. Experimental results show fairly close agreement with the theory.     

Compact size dipole antenna

A novel wideband planar dipole antenna is proposed. This antenna has a simple structure and compact size. For verification, the newly proposed structure was fabricated and measured. It is shown that the return loss of the antenna between 3.0 and 7.5 GHz is better than 2 10 dB. The radiation performance is good over the whole frequency band.     

Dual-frequency folded dipole antenna with PBG structure

For wideband RFID systems, a dual-frequency printed folded dipole antenna is designed with a photonic bandgap (PBG) structure carved in the antenna's arms. Simulated results show that this antenna has good return loss characteristic and hemisphere direction radiation characteristic, at two working centre frequencies of 0.90 and 2.24'GHz. Compared to other improved structures, the new PBG structure has special advantages in simplifying the antenna structure. Considering engineering processes, the influences of antenna arm width, dielectric loss, the PBG structure bore size and substrate on the performance of an antenna are particularly studied.     

A cavity-backed dipole antenna with wide-bandwidth characteristics

This communication describes a cavity-backed dipole antenna that has a broad-band VSWR response, unidirectional radiation patterns, and almost constant gain (10.5 pm 1dB) over an operating bandwidth of 1.8: 1. Measured pertinent electrical characteristics are presented.     

Two-port dielectric resonator antenna loaded with meta-surface for improving isolation and circular polarization generator

In this communication, a dielectric resonator based dual-port radiator is designed. Loading of meta-surface over the dual-port antenna creates two important features that make it unique to the proposed design: (i) conversion of the linear polarized plane waves into circularly polarized plane wave (ii) improve the isolation between the antenna port by more than 30 dB. Experimental measurement confirms that proposed design is working in the frequency range 5.14–5.55 GHz, and a 3-dB axial ratio is produced from 5.36 to 5.45 GHz. Stable radiation pattern and good value of diversity performance are also achieved in the proposed radiator. All of these characteristics make the developed radiator appropriate for WLAN (5.4 GHz) applications.     

Emitter-wrap-through photovoltaic dipole antenna with solar concentrator

A novel photovoltaic dipole antenna employing a solar concentrator as a reflector is proposed. Four identical emitter-wrap-through rear contact solar cells connected in series as a folded dipole are simultaneously used for power generation and as the antenna radiating element, which is located in the focal line of a parabolic solar concentrator. The parabolic structure acts as a solar concentrator for the photovoltaic cells as well as a reflector for the folded dipole antenna. Full-wave electromagnetic simulation with supportive experimental work validates this design. The measured fractional impedance bandwidth and gain were 21% and 11.1 dBi, respectively. The antenna/solar arrangement provide a power output of 73.7 mW for an irradiance of 1000 Wm^-2.     

Radiating dipole antenna with tapered impedance loading

The far-field radiated waveform and field pattern from a thin dipole antenna in the transmission line approximation are considered when the antenna is driven by a voltage generator of waveformV_{0}u(t), whereu(t)is the unit step function. The antenna is loaded with a tapered form of loading and is permitted to include reactance as well as resistance. Analytical and numerical solutions for the far-field pattern and waveform are discussed. In particular, the effects of parallel resistive and inductive loading are presented.     

Broadband planar antenna with parasitic radiator

A novel kind of planar monopole broadband antenna with a parasitic radiator is presented. Measurements show that the bandwidth of the monopole antenna has been considerably improved with a parasitic element earthed with a matching inductor. The achieved impedance bandwidth reaches over 85% for VSWR/spl les/2, and the measured radiation patterns have little distortion when the frequency changes. The impedance bandwidth parameters are compared for different dimensions of ground planes     

Microwave holographic antenna with integrated printed dipole feed

A microwave holographic antenna with an integrated printed dipole feed is presented. This design offers a much lower profile than current waveguide-fed holograms and greatly simplifies fabrication. The performance of a 30 GHz dipole-fed and waveguide-fed hologram is compared.     

Crossed dipole antenna with switchable circular polarisation sense

A crossed dipole antenna with a reconfigurable circular polarisation (CP) is proposed. This antenna consists of a pair of L-shape elements with λ_g/4 phase delay lines and DC bias circuits for pin diodes. As the state of the pin diodes mounted between the feeding points and the L-shape elements is changed, the phase sequence of the crossed dipole can be varied. The CP sense of the proposed antenna can be switched with excellent electrical controllability.     

一种带尾翼的新型短波宽带偶极天线

设计了一副带尾翼和集总电阻加载的短波宽带三角形偶板子线天线.采用矩量法(MoM)对该天线的电特性进行了仿真计算,优化了天线的电压驻波比和增益特性,并制作了一副实验天线.数值仿真和测量结果表明:在3～30 MHz频带内,该天线电压驻波(VSWR)比小于2.2,在一般地面上平均增益大于4 dBi.     

Multi-band printed sleeve dipole antenna

A multi-band printed sleeve dipole is developed by using different strip pairs to compose various frequency resonances. The measured results of an example implemented for dual-band wireless LAN reveals its multi-band characteristic. The dipole-like radiation pattern and its compact dimension show that the design can satisfy the requirements of general communication.     

A new log-periodic dipole antenna

A log-periodic antenna having triangular dipoles as its constituent elements is presented. The design criterion and its electrical properties are discussed. The proposed configuration is compared with the conventional log-periodic dipole antenna. It is shown that this configuration offers a better frequency transition, bettor gain and a reduction in the axial length over the conventional log-periodic dipole array.