Design and measurement of compact tapered slot antenna for UWB microwave imaging radar

Author

Wu, Bingheng ; Ji, Yicai ; Fang, Guangyou

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

16-19 Aug. 2009

Abstract

A compact tapered slot antenna (TSA) for an ultra-wideband (UWB) microwave imaging system is investigated in this article. The proposed TSA, which takes a microstrip-line as its feeding construction, is electrically small size with wideband and good directivity. The measured and simulated results show the good performance of the antenna, and means that this type of antenna can be used in a UWB microwave imaging system and the experiment of a microwave imaging system proves the conclusion.

Keywords

microstrip lines; radar imaging; slot antennas; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband radar; UWB microwave imaging radar; compact tapered slot antenna; directivity; microstrip line; ultra wideband microwave imaging system; Antenna measurements; Microwave antennas; Microwave imaging; Microwave measurements; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Radar measurements; Slot antennas; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband radar; antenna measurement; electrically small; microwave imaging; tapered slot antenna; ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Measurement & Instruments, 2009. ICEMI '09. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3863-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3864-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMI.2009.5274613

Filename

5274613