• DocumentCode
    2809604
  • Title

    Active radiating butterfly antenna

  • Author

    Murata, M. ; Matsui, T. ; Tanaka, M. ; Ohmori, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Graduate Sch. of Inf. Syst., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Tokyo, Japan
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    13-18 July 1997
  • Firstpage
    2464
  • Abstract
    This paper proposes an active radiating antenna with a butterfly shaped resonator, and describes its configuration and experimental results. The measured maximum EIRP (equivalent isotropic radiated power) was 384.170 mW when the input DC power (P/sub DC/) was 187.308 mW. By arraying two antennas, injection locking though mutual coupling was accomplished and a power combining efficiency of 6 dBm up was achieved.
  • Keywords
    HEMT integrated circuits; active antenna arrays; antenna testing; microwave antenna arrays; 187.308 mW; 384.17 mW; HEMT; active radiating butterfly antenna; antenna arrays; butterfly shaped resonator; equivalent isotropic radiated power; experimental result; injection locking; input DC power; maximum EIRP; microwave antenna; mutual coupling; power combining efficiency; Antenna feeds; Antenna measurements; Dielectric substrates; FETs; Frequency; HEMTs; Horn antennas; Millimeter wave communication; Thickness control; Transmitting antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1997. IEEE., 1997 Digest
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4178-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.1997.625499
  • Filename
    625499