Title :
Conical quad-mode antenna with integrated tapered slot antennas for wide-field polarimetry
Author :
D.S. Prinsloo;P. Meyer;R. Maaskant;M. V. Ivashina
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Stellen-bosch University, Stellenbosch, 7600, South Africa
Abstract :
This paper presents a conical quad-mode antenna for irregular sparse antenna arrays. The antenna integrates tapered slot antennas with two orthogonal dipole antennas and a conical monopole element to achieve good polarimetric performance over an ultra-wide field-of-view coverage. It is shown that the presented antenna element is able to detect two orthogonal field components up to scan angles of 80° from zenith over a 50% relative bandwidth.
Keywords :
"Dipole antennas","Antenna arrays","Gain","Slot antennas","Feeds","Apertures"
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), 2015 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/APWC.2015.7300202
