An Ultrawideband Dipole With a Director as a Feed for Reflector Antennas
Journal article, 2017

A novel ultrawideband directional flat dipole capped by a planar director is proposed in this letter. The novelty of the antenna is the great improvement of the bandwidth of a flat dipole above an ordinary finite ground plane by using a simple parasitic top patch, referred to as the "director." A linearly polarized prototype has been designed and manufactured, and achieved a nearly 3:1 operating bandwidth (2.2-6.5 GHz) with a return loss higher than 10 dB, nearly constant radiation patterns, and high aperture efficiency over the entire operating band.

feed

ultrawideband (UWB)

Dipole with director

reflector antennas

Author

C. Xie

Hunan University

J. G. Yin

Hunan University

X. Li

Hunan University

F. Pang

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Q. Liu

Hunan University

Jian Yang

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

1536-1225 (ISSN) 15485757 (eISSN)

Vol. 16 1341-1344 7762793

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

DOI

10.1109/lawp.2016.2634002

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