Title :
Planar Differential Antenna for Short-Range UWB Pulse Radar Sensor
Author :
Pepe, Domenico ; Vallozzi, Luigi ; Rogier, Hendrik ; Zito, Domenico
Author_Institution :
Tyndall Nat. Inst., Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
A novel planar differential ultrawideband (UWB) antenna was designed and implemented on low-cost FR4 substrate and characterized experimentally. The dedicated design was motivated by the implementation of a UWB pulse radar sensor obtained by co-integrating a system-on-a-chip UWB pulse radar packaged in QFN32 package with the proposed antenna, one for the transmitter and one for the receiver. The experimental results confirm the predictions obtained by simulations, and the effectiveness of the novel antenna design for the implementation of low-cost short-range pulse radar sensor was validated by field operational tests.
Keywords :
planar antennas; radar receivers; radar transmitters; system-on-chip; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband radar; QFN32 package; UWB antenna; antenna design; field operational tests; low-cost FR4 substrate; low-cost short-range pulse radar sensor; planar differential antenna; planar differential ultrawideband antenna; receiver; short-range UWB pulse radar sensor; system-on-a-chip UWB pulse radar; transmitter; Biomedical applications; differential antenna; planar antenna; short-range radar; ultrawideband (UWB);
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LAWP.2013.2291957
