Evaluation of the effect of a planar reflector on the pulse performance of an UWB monopole

Author

Dumoulin, Antoine ; John, Matthias ; Ammann, Max J. ; McEvoy, Patrick

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Antenna & High Freq. Res. Centre, Dublin Inst. of Technol., Dublin, Ireland

fYear

2010

Firstpage

189

Lastpage

192

Abstract

The effect of a planar reflector on the pulse performance of a small UWB planar monopole is described. Full electromagnetic simulations were performed and their accuracy was validated through measurements. The results show that the effect of a planar reflector is highly dependent on the distance between the reflector and the antenna. The antenna system was assessed in terms of frequency domain performance and fidelity factor. The manufactured antenna exhibits excellent time domain performance in free space and similar performance for short reflector-antenna separation with a fidelity factor greater than 99% at the recorded orientation.

Keywords

planar antennas; reflector antennas; time-frequency analysis; ultra wideband antennas; UWB planar monopole; electromagnetic simulations; fidelity factor; frequency domain performance; planar reflector; pulse performance; reflector antenna separation; time domain performance; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Receiving antennas; Reflector antennas; Ultra wideband antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2010 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7304-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2010.5666179

Filename

5666179