Design of broadband rectangular sleeve dipole antenna covering 850–2500 MHz

Author

Khumanthem, T. ; Ahirwar, S.D. ; Sairam, C. ; Kumar, Ashwani

Author_Institution

Defence Electron. Res. Lab., Hyderabad

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

492

Lastpage

494

Abstract

In this paper, design and development of rectangular sleeve dipole antenna covering more than an octave bandwidth (850-2500 MHz) is presented with measured results. Here a rectangular box type of sleeve is proposed over the cylindrical dipole elements. This antenna is compact in size and covers more than 2.9:1 bandwidth with maximum VSWR 3:1. The antenna was first simulated using CSTtrade microwave studio. The characteristics of fabricated antenna were measured and the comparison plot of simulated and measured results are also presented in this paper.

Keywords

UHF antennas; broadband antennas; dipole antennas; CST microwave studio; antenna design; broadband rectangular sleeve dipole antenna; concentric circular sleeve; cylindrical dipole elements; direction finding element; frequency 850 MHz to 2500 MHz; Antenna feeds; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Dipole antennas; Fiber reinforced plastics; Frequency; Impedance matching; Loaded antennas; Microwave antennas; Rectangular sleeve; broadband dipole; concentric circular sleeve; dipole antenna; direction finding element;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advances in Microwave Theory and Applications, 2008. MICROWAVE 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jaipur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2690-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2691-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AMTA.2008.4763094

Filename

4763094