In this paper, the finite difference time domain method in spherical coordinates is used to analyze a microstrip conical antenna with a dielectric electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structure as substrate. The voltage standing wave ratio, matched impedance, maximum gain as well as far-field radiation patterns, are presented. Our study suggests that the microstrip conical antenna on EBG substrate ho...

A novel S-band monopulse antenna with four conical helix antennas on a microstrip substrate comparator is designed, fabricated and measured. Conical helix antenna height is 3λ, and comparator size is 130mm × 150mm. The bandwidth (SWR < 2 dB) of the antenna is 21.3% with an operating frequency range of 2.7GHz–3.35 GHz. The maximum gain of the sum pattern is 17.4 dB, and the null depths of the di...

This paper presents the radiation characteristics of a circularly polarized conical beam spherical slot array antenna for applying to the mobile satellite communication subscriber. The structure of the antenna is easy to fabricate i.e., a ring of perpendicular slot pairs cut on an outer surface of a concentric conducting spherical cavity enclosed by the conducting conical surface with the simpl...

The need of ultrawideband (UWB) antennas with omni-directional coverage is increasing for both military and commercial applications (Wiesbeck et. al., 2009; Minin, 2010). The UWB radio technology promises high resolution radar applications, sensor networks with a large number of sensors for industrial or home surveillance as well as high data-rate communication over short range for personal are...

In this paper, a directional GPS antenna for L1 frequency 1575 MHz with RHCP and a high directive gain is proposed for indoor positioning applications. The proposed antenna is made of a standard off the shelf GPS patch antenna with an additional conical reflector to enhance the gain and the beamwidth of the antenna. The angle of the cone reflector is optimized by HFSS 11 software. Finally, the ...

This paper reports the design of a wide band planar fed, planar conical loop Antenna. Parametric studies have been carried out to arrive at the optimum antenna dimensions to have a wide impedance bandwidth (VSWR<2). Experimental results confirmed the wide impedance bandwidth.

A concept for a deployable high-performance antenna structure for CubeSats is presented. The detailed design of a conical log-spiral antenna with wideband operation between 250 500 MHz, a gain of above 5 dB, and circular polarization is performed using electromagnetic simulations. A structural concept using dual-matrix composites with soft hinge regions, allowing the antenna to be packaged into...

Abstract—The wide-angle bicone antenna terminated by a spherical cap is investigated. The antenna radiation patterns have been observed for various values of ka where k represents the phase constant and a represents the conical length. It is seen that for large values of ka the radiation pattern is limited within an angular sector bounded by the cones of the antenna. Next the antenna is optimiz...