Reflector based fat monopole UWB antenna for impulse radar application

Author

Singh, Dushyant Kumar ; Pande, D.C. ; Bhattacharya, Avik

Author_Institution

Electron. & Radar Dev. Establ. (LRDE), Bangalore, India

fYear

2011

fDate

18-22 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

UWB antennas with a capability of radiating narrow time domain pulses is of great interest for short-range Impulse radar applications like through wall surveillance, ground penetrating radar, etc. This paper discusses design, analysis and measurement of a reflector based fat monopole antenna. The antenna was analyzed using Finite time domain solver to estimate the far zone Electric field for a Gaussian excitation. The important characteristics measured for this antenna is; bandwidth 620 MHz-25 GHz more than 190%. The dispersion characteristics of the antenna were evaluated by measuring transmission coefficient using two similar antennas in an anechoic chamber. Phase linearity and flat group delay across the stated band ascertain its pulse fidelity property and make it a suitable choice for Short Range Impulse Radar.

Keywords

Gaussian processes; anechoic chambers (electromagnetic); finite difference time-domain analysis; monopole antennas; radar antennas; reflector antennas; ultra wideband radar; Gaussian excitation; anechoic chamber; far zone electric field estimation; finite time domain solver; flat group delay; frequency 620 MHz to 25 GHz; phase linearity; reflector based fat monopole UWB antenna; short-range impulse radar applications; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Delay; Frequency measurement; Radar antennas; Time domain analysis; FDTD; Fat Monopole; UWB;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Kolkata

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1098-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AEMC.2011.6256791

Filename

6256791