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2016-08-02
Wideband Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna with Enhanced Radiation Parameters
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 66, 163-171, 2016
Abstract
A novel balanced antipodal Vivaldi antenna (BAVA) with high gain and good directivity is proposed in this paper. The outer edges of the flare are modified by a binomial curve to broaden the impedance bandwidth. A metal director is adopted to improve the antenna gain and directivity. The measured results show that the proposed BAVA achieves a bandwidth from 2 to more than 40 GHz with peak gain >0 dBi and >10 dBi over the 8-40 GHz range. The squinting beam of E-plane is less than 5° from 4 to 40 GHz and less than 3° from 22 to 40 GHz.
Citation
Li Li, Xinlin Xia, Yu Liu, and Tao Yang, "Wideband Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna with Enhanced Radiation Parameters," Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 66, 163-171, 2016.
doi:10.2528/PIERC16051704
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