• DocumentCode
    1816891
  • Title

    Broadband planar Yagi antenna for millimetre & sub-millimetre detectors

  • Author

    Boon-Kok Tan ; Yassin, G. ; Withington, S. ; Goldie, David

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. (Astrophys.), Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-11 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Conventional sub-millimetre wave detectors utilise waveguide probe or slot antenna to couple the signal from the sky. In this paper, we report an alternative type of planar antenna design that has high quality radiation pattern across a large operating bandwidth, compact and easy to fabricate.
  • Keywords
    Yagi antenna arrays; broadband antennas; planar antenna arrays; slot antenna arrays; broadband planar Yagi antenna design; high quality radiation pattern; operating bandwidth; slot antenna; submillimetre wave detectors; waveguide probe; Antenna arrays; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Dipole antennas; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Mixers; Yagi-Uda arrays; microstrip antenna; millimetre and sub-millimetre wave astronomy; planar antenna; superconductor-insulator-superconductor mixer; terahertz detectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Millimeter Waves and THz Technology Workshop (UCMMT), 2013 6th UK, Europe, China
  • Conference_Location
    Rome, Italy
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/UCMMT.2013.6641549
  • Filename
    6641549