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Optimization and design of the center-fed cage antenna

ZHOU Bin;LIU Qi-zhong;XU Zhi;JI Yi-cai
  

  1. Key Lab. of Antennas and Microwave Technology, Xidian Univ., Xi’an 710071, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2006-12-20 Published:2006-12-20

Abstract: The center-fed cage antenna is optimized and designed. The electrical characteristics of the antenna, such as VSWR and Gain, are analyzed by Numerical electromagnetics code, version 2. Then the structure of the antenna and the matching network can be optimized by the Genetic Algorithm (GA), with the gain as the object function and a fitness function formed. The characteristics of VSWR are improved to be less than 3.0, and the gain are greater than 0.0 dB over the 100~400MHz frequency band. Finally a practical antenna is produced, with the calculated data in good agreement with the experimental data.

Key words: center-fed cage antenna, matching network, genetic algorithm

CLC Number: 

  • TN823+.31