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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference, 2003 33rd European
Conference_Location :
Munich, Germany
Print_ISBN :
1-58053-834-7
DOI :
10.1109/EUMA.2003.341050
