Slotted Waveguide Antenna Stiffened Structure (SWASS) is a type of conformal load-bearing antenna where top-hat cross-section stiffeners on skins, or blade stiffeners in sandwich panels, serve the dual purpose of acting both as structural stiffeners and as waveguides. Cutting slots through the outer skin and into these waveguide stiffeners creates slotted waveguide antenna arrays. Two of the ke...

Abstract—This paper describes a wideband double-dipole Yagi-Uda antenna fed by a microstrip-slot coplanar stripline transition. The conventional dipole driver of a Yagi-Uda antenna is replaced by two parallel dipoles with different lengths to achieve multi-resonances, and a small, tapered ground plane is used to allow flexibility in the placement of a pair of reflectors for effective reflection...

In this paper, a slot antenna array based on half-mode substrate integrated waveguide (HMSIW) is presented, integrating series of linearly tapered slots for wireless broadband applications in millimeter-wave frequencies. The are etched the upper layer HMSIW, which radiates energy from open side exhibiting near broadside radiation pattern. Two identical sets back-to-back printed arrays cross-lap...

A dual microstrip meander slot antenna is presented for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) application. The proposed antenna comprises a rectangular microstrip patch element embedded with two meander slots. The parametric study is performed to investigate the characteristics of microstrip patch antenna with double meandered slots compared to one without any meander slot. Microstrip patch antenn...

In this paper, a novel circularly polarized Spidron fractal slot antenna array developed for broadband satellite communication in the Ku-band is discussed. A Spidron fractal slot configuration was utilized as a single radiating element to achieve circularly polarized radiation. The effects of altering the feeding position on the resonance behavior and the radiative characteristics were assessed...

-Wide band truncated rectangular microstrip antenna with H slot loaded and defected ground plane structure is presented in this paper to increase the bandwidth. It is found that the impedance bandwidth of a microstrip antenna could be enhanced considerably when a defected ground structure is used .The band width of a truncated rectangular microstrip antenna with H slot is 21.2% whereas after ad...

In this paper, a tapered slot antenna capable of ultra-wideband communication was designed. In the proposed antenna, rectangular slits were inserted to enhance the bandwidth and reduce the area of the antenna. The rectangular slit-inserted tapered slot antenna operated at a bandwidth of 8.45 GHz, and the bandwidth improved upon the basic tapered slot antenna by 4.72 GHz. The radiation pattern o...