• DocumentCode
    546771
  • Title

    A new metal-rod-supported hat antenna for potentially combining with the Eleven antenna as a dual-band feed for reflectors

  • Author

    Yang, Jian ; Wei, Wei ; Ostling, Tomas ; Schafer, Thomas

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Signals & Syst., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Gothenburg, Sweden
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    11-15 April 2011
  • Firstpage
    763
  • Lastpage
    767
  • Abstract
    A new hat feed entirely made of metal without using dielectric material has been developed. Compared to the previous hat feeds, it has lower manufacture cost, higher reliability, and wider bandwidth of reflection coefficient. The feed has been optimized using Genetic Algorithm. A prototype has been manufactured, and measured results are presented to verify the numerical simulations. In addition, the new design opens up the possibility to combine the new hat antenna with the Eleven antenna for a dual-band feed.
  • Keywords
    dielectric materials; genetic algorithms; multifrequency antennas; reflector antenna feeds; dielectric material; dual-band feed; genetic algorithm; metal-rod-supported hat antenna; reflection coefficient; Antenna feeds; Antenna measurements; Apertures; Metals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0250-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5782547