Designing Yagi-Uda antenna fed by microstrip line and simulated by HFSS

Author

Karbalaee, Hassan ; Salehifar, Mohammad Reza ; Soleimany, Saeed

Author_Institution

Shahed Univ., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2012

fDate

17-19 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this article, we have proposed a novel Yagi antenna that has both compactness of resonant antenna and broadband characteristics of traveling-wave radiators. It is fabricated on dielectric substrate with a microstrip (MS) feed. The top layer consists a microstrip feed, a broadband microstrip-to-coplanar stripline (CPS) transition and two diopole-elements, one of them which is driver element is fed by CPS, and the second is director. The metal underside is a microstrip ground which serves as a reflector element and cancels using reflector dipole. This antenna is constructed on low cost substrate with 1.56mm thickness and ε_r = 4.12. The simulated bandwidth is about 35% and its gain is more than 5dB.

Keywords

Yagi antenna arrays; broadband antennas; dipole antenna arrays; frequency selective surfaces; microstrip antenna arrays; microstrip lines; microwave antenna arrays; reflector antenna feeds; HFSS simulation; MS feed; Yagi-Uda antenna fed design; broadband CPS transition; broadband characteristics; broadband microstrip-to-coplanar stripline transition; dielectric substrate; diopole elements; microstrip feed; microstrip ground; microstrip line; reflector dipole; reflector element; resonant antenna compactness; traveling-wave radiators; Antenna feeds; Bandwidth; Dipole antennas; Impedance; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; HFSS; Yagi-Uda antenna; microstrip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT), 2012 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tbilisi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1739-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAICT.2012.6398503

Filename

6398503