Parallel strip fed antenna with extremely wide bandwidth

Author

Salmani, Zeeshan ; Zhang, Hualiang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

3-8 July 2011

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

89

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a simple extremely wideband antenna fed by a parallel strip transmission line. Two individual radiating elements are integrated together in a way inspired by the log periodic antenna array concept. Metamaterials based antennas are used as the radiating elements. The proposed antenna is designed on FR4 substrate and successfully operates in the 0.68GHz to 120GHz frequency range covering the ultra-wideband (UWB) operating bandwidth of 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz as well as VHF band.

Keywords

VHF antennas; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; log periodic antennas; metamaterials; transmission lines; ultra wideband antennas; FR4 substrate; VHF band; frequency 0.68 GHz to 120 GHz; log periodic antenna array; metamaterial; parallel strip fed antenna; parallel strip transmission line; radiating element; ultra-wideband operating bandwidth; wide bandwidth; Antenna arrays; Bandwidth; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Ultra wideband antennas; UWB antenna; impedance matching; metamaterial based antenna; parallel strip; wide bandwidth;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Spokane, WA

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9562-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2011.5996645

Filename

5996645