Open AccessWideband non‐traveling‐wave triple‐mode slotline antenna
Author(s) -
Guo ChunRui,
Lu WenJun,
Zhang ZhongShuai,
Zhu Lei
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
iet microwaves, antennas and propagation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.555
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1751-8733
pISSN - 1751-8725
DOI - 10.1049/iet-map.2016.0607
Subject(s) - wideband , radiator (engine cooling) , stub (electronics) , microstrip , physics , acoustics , microstrip antenna , bandwidth (computing) , wavelength , radiation , antenna (radio) , traveling wave , optics , radiation pattern , electronic engineering , electrical engineering , engineering , telecommunications , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Design approach of a novel, triple‐mode wideband slotline antenna is proposed and studied. The proposed antenna is realised and implemented by employing the multiple resonant modes within a narrow slotline radiator, rather than utilising the traveling‐wave effect. At first, a triple‐digit, fork‐like microstrip tuning stub is used to excite the first and the second odd‐order mode within a slim, 3/2‐wavelength slotline radiator. Then, a pair of slotline stubs is introduced near the E ‐field nulls of the third odd‐order mode. By finely tuning the parameters of the microstrip/slotline stubs, the three radiation modes are perturbed and merged to generate a wideband, radiation characteristic with three resonances. Prototype antennas are then fabricated and measured. Finally, the design approach is experimentally validated. It is shown that the proposed antenna's radiation bandwidth has been effectively increased to 33.2% while keeping a single, basic‐form narrow slotline radiator with a simple, non‐traveling‐wave configuration.