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Abstract

A design of a modified bow-tie slot loaded wideband antenna using a Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) cavity is proposed in this paper. The simple bow-tie slot perturbs the current distribution of the TE₁₂₀ mode, which generates two hybrid modes, namely odd TE₁₂₀ and even TE₁₂₀ modes at 9.6 GHz and 10.8 GHz respectively, but the achieved bandwidth is only 500 MHz (5.2%). To increase the bandwidth, a short rectangular slot is incorporated at the middle of the bow-tie slot, which moves the hybrid odd TE₁₂₀ mode to 10.2 GHz, near even TE₁₂₀, which helps to achieve a wide bandwidth of 1.1 GHz ranging 9.9 GHz-11 GHz (10.5%), and also it exhibits a unidirectional radiation pattern. The proposed antenna is fabricated for experimental validation of the modified bow-tie slot antenna. The measured value of bandwidth is 1.1 GHz from 10.1 GHz to 11.2 GHz (10.3%) with a consistent gain of 6.25 dBi, and the variation between co-pol and cross-pol is maximal. Because of the wide bandwidth, high gain and compactness, the suggested antenna is suitable for satellite, radar, and all practical wireless applications of X-band frequencies.

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