Design and numerical analysis of a new reconfigurable antenna for georadar applications

Author

Romano, N. ; Soldovieri, F. ; Persico, R.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ing. dell´´Inf., Seconda Univ. degli Studi Napoli, Aversa, Italy

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We propose a new completely variable reconfigurable antenna for Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) applications. In particular, here we present the design and the numerical analysis of the structure in total geometry morphing approach, with the aim of simulating the specific behavior of a reference bow-tie dipole. The development environment of the new device was the numerical tool HFSS (High Frequency Structure Simulator) by Ansoft which exploits the Finite Element Method (FEM). Finally, we extend the analysis of a single antenna by investigating the effect of a receiving one on the radiation properties of the transmitting antenna in dependence on the distance between them.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; dipole antennas; finite element analysis; ground penetrating radar; transmitting antennas; finite element method; georadar application; ground penetrating radar; high frequency structure simulator; numerical analysis; numerical tool; radiation property; reference bow-tie dipole; total geometry morphing approach; transmitting antenna; variable reconfigurable antenna; Analytical models; Dipole antennas; Frequency; Geometry; Ground penetrating radar; Numerical analysis; Radar antennas; Receiving antennas; Solid modeling; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), 2010 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lecce

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4604-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4605-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGPR.2010.5550253

Filename

5550253