DocumentCode
2215942
Title
A Wideband Equivalent SPICE Circuit for a Monopole Antenna and its Usefulness for UWB Applications
Author
Gerrits, John ; Hutter, Andreas ; Ayadi, Jaouhar ; Farserotu, John
Author_Institution
Centre Suisse d´´Electronique et de Microtechnique SA (CSEM), Jaquet Droz 1, CH2007 Neuchâtel, Switzerland, tel. 00 41 32 720 56 52, email: jge@csem.ch
fYear
2003
fDate
Oct. 2003
Firstpage
703
Lastpage
705
Abstract
This paper presents a transmission line based electrical equivalent schematic of a ¿/4 monopole antenna for co-simulation with electrical circuits in simulators like ELDO and SPICE. The antenna model is derived from TDR (time domain) measurements and yields fast and accurate results for the antenna impedance from DC up to 3 times the 1st resonant frequency f0.
Keywords
Antenna measurements; Broadband antennas; Circuit simulation; Distributed parameter circuits; Frequency measurement; Impedance measurement; SPICE; Transmission line antennas; Transmission line measurements; Ultra wideband antennas;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Microwave Conference, 2003 33rd European
Conference_Location
Munich, Germany
Print_ISBN
1-58053-834-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/EUMA.2003.341050
Filename
4143114
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