An ultrawideband inverted double discone antenna with 150:1 impedance bandwidth

Irfan Shahid; Fawad Hussain; Jehanzeb Burki; M. Shoaib Arif

doi:10.1002/mop.29530

An ultrawideband inverted double discone antenna with 150:1 impedance bandwidth

Irfan Shahid^*, Fawad Hussain, Jehanzeb Burki, M. Shoaib Arif

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this article, an improved design of ultrawideband (UWB) inverted double discone (IDD) antenna is presented. Conventionally, IDD antennas are designed using tapered cylindrical wires as antenna elements. The tapering makes these antennas very fragile and the antennas suffer frequent damage during installation, transportation or even, due to perching of birds during normal operation. In this work, curved metal sheets are used instead of tapered wires to improve antenna robustness with no compromise on antenna's performance. Using this approach, an IDD antenna with an ultrawide impedance bandwidth is designed, fabricated, and tested. The measurements show good conformance with design and the measured antenna demonstrates an impedance bandwidth (for VSWR

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	181-184
Number of pages	4
Journal	Microwave and Optical Technology Letters
Volume	58
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.29530
Publication status	Published - Jan 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

ultrawideband antenna
omnidirectional antenna
inverted double discone antenna
impedance bandwidth

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