Design and full-wave analysis of cavity-backed bow-tie antennas for low-frequency GPR applications

Author

Caratelli, Diego ; Yarovoy, Alexander

Author_Institution

IRCTR, Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

In this paper, a comprehensive analysis of a novel GPR antenna featuring almost 30 : 1 relative bandwidth (55 MHz - >1.5GHz), with a maximum antenna size of 40 cm is performed. The antenna transient behavior, near-field radiation properties, and the impact of the ground are analyzed in details. It has been shown that the antenna exhibits reduced and short ringing, low spurious energy emission in the air region, as well as stable circuital and radiation properties over different types of soil.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; bow-tie antennas; ground penetrating radar; GPR antenna; air region; antenna transient behavior; cavity-backed bow-tie antenna; energy emission; full-wave analysis; ground impact; low-frequency GPR application; near-field radiation property; soil; Antenna feeds; Bandwidth; Ground penetrating radar; Loaded antennas; Near-field radiation pattern; Performance analysis; Radar antennas; Time domain analysis; Transient analysis; Ultra wideband antennas; Bow-Tie Antenna; Ground-Penetrating Radar; Near-Field Radiation; Transient Radiation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), 2010 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lecce

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4604-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4605-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGPR.2010.5550212

Filename

5550212