Spherical super wideband (SWB) monopole antenna with micromachined tapered feeding line

Author

Cheolbok Kim ; Kyoung Tae Kim ; Yong-Kyu Yoon ; Jong Kyu Kim

Author_Institution

Dept. Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

7-13 July 2013

Firstpage

226

Lastpage

227

Abstract

A spherical super wideband (SWB) monopole antenna is designed, fabricated and characterized. The low frequency cutoff is mainly determined by the diameter of the conductive sphere monopole antenna at its quarter wavelength, where the sphere serves as a main radiator. The upper cutoff is greatly enlarged by using the tapered feeding line between the coaxial and the sphere, which is fabricated using thick photopatternable polyurethane (D50, MacDerimid Inc.) and 3D multidirectional UV lithography. The implemented SWB antenna has a 10dB-bandwidth between 2.4 and 23.2 GHz (a ratio bandwidth of 9.7:1), and an omni-directional radiation pattern with a maximum gain of approximately 2.9 dBi at 10 GHz.

Keywords

antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; micromachining; monopole antennas; ultraviolet lithography; 3D multidirectional UN lithography; D50; MacDerimid Inc; SWB antenna; conductive sphere monopole antenna; frequency 10 GHz; low frequency cutoff; micromachined tapered feeding line; omnidirectional radiation pattern; spherical super wideband antenna; thick photopatternable polyurethane; Antenna feeds; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Three-dimensional displays; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5315-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2013.6710774

Filename

6710774