Low-Profile Top-Hat Monopole Yagi Antenna for End-Fire Radiation
- 29 April 2015
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Vol. 63 (7), 2851-2857
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.2015.2427853
Abstract
A top-hat monopole Yagi antenna is presented to produce an end-fire radiation beam. The antenna has an extremely low profile and wide operating bandwidth. It consists of a folded top-hat monopole as the driven element and four short-circuited top-hat monopoles as parasitic elements. A broad bandwidth can be achieved by adjusting the different resonances introduced by the driven and parasitic elements. A prototype operating at the UHF band (f 0 = 550 MHz) is fabricated and tested. Measured results show that a fractional bandwidth (|S 11 | <; -10 dB) of 20.5% is obtained while the antenna height is only λ 0 /28 at the center frequency.Keywords
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