Design of frequency-scanning asymmetric antipodal Vivaldi antenna

Author

Zi-Jian Gao ; Li-Ming Si ; Yong Liu ; Xin Lv

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

14-16 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An asymmetric antipodal Vivaldi antenna with frequency scanning function is proposed. The frequency scanning is achieved by two different exponential curves on the upper and bottom surfaces of the tapered slot antenna (TSA). The antenna is fed by microstrip line of 50 Ohm characteristic impedance. The proposed antenna shows 20.7% bandwidth from 6.5 GHz to 8.0 GHz with VSWR less than 2. The gain of the proposed antenna ranges from 5.4 dB to 6.75 dB through the whole effective bandwidth. The main beam of the E-plane radiation patterns at 6.5 GHz, 7.25 GHz, and 8 GHz, are 45 Deg, 50 Deg, and 60 Deg, respectively, which clearly displays the frequency scanning function of the proposed antenna.

Keywords

microstrip antennas; microstrip lines; slot antennas; E-plane radiation patterns; TSA; characteristic impedance; exponential curves; frequency 6.5 GHz to 8.0 GHz; frequency-scanning asymmetric antipodal Vivaldi antenna design; gain 5.4 dB to 6.75 dB; microstrip line; resistance 50 ohm; tapered slot antenna; asymmetric antipodal Vivaldi antenna; frequency scanning antenna; tapered slot antenna (TSA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference 2013, IET International

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-84919-603-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp.2013.0435

Filename

6624599