A compact microstrip ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna for VHF/UHF band applications

Author

Guo-Min Yang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Sci. & Eng., Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2013

fDate

7-13 July 2013

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

12

Abstract

A compact ultra-wideband quasi log-periodic dipole antenna (LPDA) printed on dielectric substrate is proposed in this paper. The antenna is realized by cascading straight line LPDA with 29 elements and meander line LPDA with 11 elements. An ultra-wideband of 20-2200 MHz was obtained, and the antenna gain was about 6 dBi in the band of 100-2200 MHz. The simulation results indicate that the designed UWB LPDA has very stable radiation patterns throughout the whole frequency band combined with low profile and ease fabrication, which show great potential for VHF and UHF bands wireless communications.

Keywords

UHF antennas; VHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; dipole antenna arrays; log periodic antennas; microstrip antenna arrays; ultra wideband antennas; UHF band wireless communications; VHF band applications; compact ultrawideband quasi log-periodic dipole antenna; dielectric substrate; frequency 20 MHz to 2200 MHz; meander line LPDA; stable radiation patterns; straight line LPDA; Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; Dipole antennas; Ultra wideband antennas;

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.2013.6710666

Filename

6710666