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2010-12-09
Design of a Balun for a Bow Tie Antenna in Reconfigurable Ground Penetrating Radar Systems
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 18, 123-135, 2011
Abstract
This paper deals with the design of a reconfigurable antenna that resembles a monolithic UWB bow-tie antenna for Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) applications. In particular, the attention is focussed on the design of the balun system able to work in the frequency band 0.3--1 GHz; the effectiveness of the design is shown by examining the behaviour of the scattering parameters S11 for both the reference monolithic antenna and the designed reconfigurable antenna. Also, an analysis of the radiation pattern of both the monolithic and reconfigurable antennas is presented and confirms the effectiveness of the designed balun system.
Citation
Raffaele Persico, Nicola Romano, and Francesco Soldovieri, "Design of a Balun for a Bow Tie Antenna in Reconfigurable Ground Penetrating Radar Systems," Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 18, 123-135, 2011.
doi:10.2528/PIERC10100409
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