Direct antenna modulation: analysis, design, and experiment

Author

Keller, Steven D. ; Palmer, W. Devereux ; Joines, William T.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng., Duke Univ., Durham, NC

fYear

2006

fDate

9-14 July 2006

Firstpage

909

Lastpage

912

Abstract

In this paper, a symmetrical 1.5 GHz patch antenna has been designed, constructed, simulated and experimentally fine-tuned to be the radiating element in the experiment to implement direct antenna modulation. With a resonant bandwidth of about 30 MHz (using a 10 dB or better return-loss standard), there is significant room for improvement that direct antenna modulation can offer to the information bandwidth of the system. By driving the antenna at resonance and directly modulating it with an integrated Schottky diode being biased by an external pulse train, the frequency of this external modulating signal is predicted to far exceed the resonant bandwidth of the antenna and still produce a clear demodulated waveform at the receiving end of a basic communication system

Keywords

Schottky diodes; UHF antennas; demodulation; microstrip antennas; modulation; basic communication system; clear demodulated waveform; direct antenna modulation; external modulating signal; external pulse train; information bandwidth; integrated Schottky diode; patch antenna; radiating element; resonant bandwidth; return-loss standard; Bandwidth; Baseband; Dipole antennas; Information geometry; Patch antennas; Receiving antennas; Resonance; Resonant frequency; Schottky diodes; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 2006, IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0123-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2006.1710677

Filename

1710677