• DocumentCode
    3677094
  • Title

    Deployable origami Yagi loop antenna

  • Author

    Shun Yao;Xueli Liu;John Gibson;Stavros V. Georgakopoulos

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, 33174, United States
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2215
  • Lastpage
    2216
  • Abstract
    A Yagi loop antenna, which is built on an origami spring structure, is presented here. The Yagi loop array can be compressed to 5 cm length by a servo motor which can reduce nearly 70% of the volume of the array. The antenna´s body is 20.5 cm long when it is expanded to the working state. The physical parameters of the antenna such as loop´s radius and distances between loops are analyzed. The antenna is designed to work at 1.31 GHz. A directional realized gain of 10.4 dBi is observed. The measurements agree well with the designed simulation model.
  • Keywords
    "Arrays","Springs","Antenna arrays","Impedance","Antenna radiation patterns","Frequency measurement"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2015.7305496
  • Filename
    7305496