Analysis and design of ultra-wideband planar tapered slot antenna arrays

Author

Yao, Yuan ; Liu, Minggang ; Feng, Zhenghe

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. on Microwave&Digital Commun., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

16-20 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper a tapered slot antenna array has been analyzed and designed. Both the simulation and measurement results show that the antenna array has scanned impedance bandwidths over the frequency band of 1.8-9 GHz and scan angle up to 45deg. This work reveals that the strong mutual coupling between elements has good effects to the overall performance of the array. It can be well used to achieve good active impedance matching of the array with tapered slot antenna elements have poor isolated impedance matching. Thus for the ultra-wideband arrays the mutual coupling is essential and we should utilize it but not fight against it.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna theory; electromagnetic coupling; microwave antenna arrays; planar antenna arrays; slot antenna arrays; ultra wideband antennas; antenna design; frequency 1.8 GHz to 9 GHz; impedance bandwidths; mutual coupling; ultra-wideband planar tapered slot antenna arrays; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Frequency measurement; Impedance matching; Impedance measurement; Mutual coupling; Slot antennas; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2008. APMC 2008. Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2641-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2642-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2008.4958412

Filename

4958412