J4 ›› 2009, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6): 1034-1038.

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Design of a novel ultra-wideband tapered slot antenna

SONG Yue;JIAO Yong-chang;ZHANG Fu-shun;WANG Nai-biao   

  1. (Key Lab. of Antennas and Microwave Technology, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2008-10-06 Online:2009-12-20 Published:2010-01-20
  • Contact: SONG Yue E-mail:ysong@mail.xidian.edu.cn

Abstract:

A microstrip fed ultra-wideband tapered slot antenna is designed and fabricated. The wideband impedance matching is obtained by the use of a modified microstrip/slotline transition. The improvement of impedance characteristics at the lower band is achieved by introducing a novel flare curve as a radiation part. The measured results of the proposed antenna demonstrate that this directional antenna achieves a ratio bandwidth of  15.4∶1 for VSWR≤2 from 0.92 to  14.25GHz. The front-to-back ratio and cross polarization ratio of its radiation patterns over the operating band are greater then 18 dB and less than  -18dB, respectively.

Key words: ultra-wideband, tapered slot antenna, microstrip-slot transition

CLC Number: 

  • TN823.24