摘要
This work proposes a wideband and unidirectional antenna consisting of dual layer of coplanar waveguide based on the circular parasitic element technique.The design procedure is implemented in three stages:Design A,which operates at 3.94 GHz with a bandwidth of 3.83 GHz and a fractional bandwidth(FBW)of 97.2%;Design B,which operates at 3.98 GHz with a bandwidth of 0.66 GHz(FBW of 56.53%);and Design C as the final antenna.The final Design C is designed to resonate at several frequencies between 2.89 and 7.0 GHz for microwave imaging applications with a bandwidth of 4.11 GHz(79.8%)centered at 5.15 GHz.This antenna is fabricated fully using two textile materials:felt as the substrate and ShieldIt as the conductor.It features a unidirectional radiation with a gain of 5.5 dBi,and reduced lowback radiation from 2.06 to−7.81 dB.The front-to-back ratio(FBR)for Design A,Design B and Design C are 4.82,2.94 and 11.36 dB,respectively.This antenna is wideband with unidirectional radiation,lightweight,and flexible.
基金
This work was supported in part by the Malaysia Public Service Department(JPA)and Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka(UTeM)under Jurnal/2020/FKEKK/Q00053
P.J.Soh acknowledges the support from the Academy of Finland 6 Genesis Flagship(Grant No.318927).
