• DocumentCode
    2979364
  • Title

    Reconfigurable Vivaldi antenna with tunable stop bands

  • Author

    Hamid, M.R. ; Gardner, P. ; Hall, P.S. ; Ghanem, F.

  • Author_Institution
    Electron. Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    7-9 March 2011
  • Firstpage
    54
  • Lastpage
    57
  • Abstract
    A novel Vivaldi antenna is presented with tunable stop bands. A microstrip line resonator is coupled to the tapered slot, with three varactors used for tuning. The stop band can be tuned between 2 GHz and 7 GHz, to give a very wide tuning ratio, of 3.5:1. Good agreements between simulated and measured results are observed, which verify the design concepts.
  • Keywords
    UHF antennas; microstrip antennas; microstrip lines; microstrip resonators; slot antennas; varactors; frequency 2 GHz to 7 GHz; microstrip line resonator; reconfigurable Vivaldi antenna; tapered slot; tunable stop bands; varactors; Microstrip resonators; Resonant frequency; Varactors; Vivaldi antennas; Wideband; Vivaldi antenna; band rejection; cognitive radio; tunable; wideband antenna;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antenna Technology (iWAT), 2011 International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-9133-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IWAT.2011.5752361
  • Filename
    5752361