• DocumentCode
    1838070
  • Title

    Wideband quasi-Yagi antenna with tapered driver

  • Author

    Nguyen, Phong Thanh ; Abbosh, Amin ; Crozier, Stuart

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    27-29 Aug. 2012
  • Firstpage
    138
  • Lastpage
    139
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a wideband quasi-Yagi antenna with a driven element in the form of tapered strip. The antenna is designed to be part of a circular array for a microwave imaging system. The feeding structure of the antenna includes a balun that is formed using a pair of microstrip to slotline transitions. The simulated results of the proposed antenna indicate more than 73% fractional bandwidth with more than 10 dB return loss and about 3 dBi to 5 dBi gain.
  • Keywords
    Yagi antenna arrays; baluns; broadband antennas; microstrip lines; microwave imaging; slot lines; balun; circular array; feeding structure; microstrip to slotline transitions; microwave imaging system; tapered driver; tapered strip; wideband quasi-Yagi antenna; Antenna feeds; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Gain; Impedance matching; Microstrip antennas; planar antenna; quasi-yagi antenna; wideband antenna;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), 2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Singapore
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0666-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333186
  • Filename
    6333186