A UWB monopole antenna for GPR application

Author

Cao, Ping ; Huang, Yi ; Zhang, Jingwei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

26-30 March 2012

Firstpage

2837

Lastpage

2840

Abstract

In this paper the design of an ultra-wideband (UWB) monopole antenna with a coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed for ground penetrating radar (GPR) application is presented. The antenna offers a broad bandwidth from 0.4 to 3 GHz with a relative small GPR antenna size compared to the conventional circular monopole antenna. The other advantages of such an antenna are the simple antenna structure and easy to be integrated with PCB board. A rectangular conducting reflector is placed below the antenna to obtain a unidirectional radiation pattern for GPR application. Computer simulations are conducted and measurements are carried out to validate the results.

Keywords

coplanar waveguides; ground penetrating radar; monopole antennas; printed circuits; ultra wideband antennas; CPW feed; GPR application; PCB board; UWB monopole antenna; coplanar waveguide feed; ground penetrating radar; ultra wideband monopole antenna; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Ground penetrating radar; Mice; Reflector antennas; Ultra wideband antennas; GPR antenna; Monopole antenna; UWB antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0918-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0919-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206443

Filename

6206443