Title :
Broadband and low-profile H-plane ridged horn antenna
Author :
Zhuozhu Chen;Zhongxiang Shen
Author_Institution :
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper presents a broadband and low-profile H-plane horn antenna mounted on a large ground plane. By employing stepped ridges and an ellipse-shaped copper taper extended along the horn aperture, the proposed antenna achieves a wide bandwidth from 4.2 GHz to 18 GHz for VSWR ≤ 2 while retaining the antenna height of only 5.508 mm. Acceptable gain values with nearly end-fire radiation beams are obtained over the entire frequency band.
Keywords :
"Horn antennas","Broadband antennas","Apertures","Copper","Wideband","Waveguide transitions"
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2015.7305548
