• DocumentCode
    1900945
  • Title

    Two octaves bandwidth passive balun for the eleven feed for reflector antennas

  • Author

    Zamanifekri, Abolghasem ; Yang, Jian

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Signals & Syst., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Gothenburg, Sweden
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    11-17 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    A new two octaves bandwidth balun is presented in the paper, which has a bandwidth of 3-13 GHz with a very compact size, -10 dB input reflection coefficient, low ohmic loss and large common mode suppression. A new descrambler circuit for the 2-13 GHz Eleven feed has been designed by using the new baluns, reducing from 4 twin-wire ports to 2 single-ended ports, one per polarization. The reflection coefficient of the whole Eleven antenna with the new descrambling circuit is below -8 dB over the frequency range of 3-13 GHz. Further improvement of the bandwidth of the new balun will be emphasized in the future work.
  • Keywords
    antenna feeds; baluns; bandwidth 2 GHz to 13 GHz; low ohmic loss; octaves bandwidth passive balun; reflector antenna feeds; Feeds; Impedance matching; Microstrip; Wideband;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Toronto, ON
  • ISSN
    1522-3965
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4967-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2010.5562214
  • Filename
    5562214