Wideband multifunction airborne antennas

Increase of functions and improvement of performance required on board aircrafts, associated to the limited amount of available areas to implement the equipments drive an approach leading to grouping of functions operated in various frequency bands and to reduction of thickness of the antennas. Technical and technology research is being conducted on wideband and multi-band radiating structures, making in particular use of metamaterials and FSS structures, and the overall architecture has to deal with the various requirements.