PROPAGATION AND ANTENNAS 1

Design of a parabolic reector antenna for 9.5 GHz

J. I. Quinapanta, H. R. Altamirano, V. E. Morocho, G. B. Uquillas, D. G. Huilcapi
Facultad de Inform atica y Electr onica
Escuela Superior Polit ecnica de Chimborazo
Riobamba-Ecuador
Email: jonathanismael@hotmail.com
AbstractThis paper shows the design and analysis of a
parabolic reector antenna, the operating frequency is 9.5 GHz
and the structure consists of a feed antenna pointed towards a
parabolic reector, which is a horn antenna... the antenna is on
a dielectric material with a permittivity of 2.17 (F/m), and fed
with a coplanar waveguide through a lumped port excitation.
The design, simulation and analysis of the bow-tie antenna has
been made in Ansoft HFFS. The bandwidth of this antenna is
about 1.54 GHz and the return loss of approximately -21.25 dB,
as the graphs shown.
KeywordsBowtie antenna, coplanar waveguide.
I. INTRODUCTION
Coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed antennas have been studied
widely in recent years, especially for microwave frequencies,
and are of interest in regard to printed circuit feeds for
antennas. CPW fed antennas have somewhat broader relative
bandwidth than dipoles. [1]
The radiation amplitude of this type antenna depends
on the kind of feed and its location. Coplanar waveguide also
has many useful design characteristics such as: low radiation
loss, less dispersion and unipolar conguration. [2]
The objective of this paper is to show the design, simulation
and results of the bowtie antenna using Arlon as the dielectric
material with a permittivity of 2.17 F/m and a thickness of
2mm, the dimensions has been changed until get the required
central frequency.
II. METHODOLOGY
To design and simulate a bowtie antenna for a central
frequency of 8 GHz the following steps were performed:
1. The dimensions in the simulator software, Ansoft
HFSS, were in millimeters, and ARLON CUCLAD 217 (tm).
was used as the dielectric material.
2. To create the substrate a box was used with the following
dimensions: dx=34 mm., dy=64 mm., dz=-2mm., and a copper
clad layer was added at the top of the box.
3. The bowtie antenna was fed trough a coplanar waveguide
with an impedance of approximately 50 , it was created
using a rectangle with the dimensions: dx= 13mm., dy=0.6
mm., dz=0 mm.
4. The nal dimensions of the antenna are shown in
the next gure:
5. To perform the simulation in far eld an air box was
included and it was setted as an innite sphere, and the
dimensions are: dx= 34mm., dy=64mm., dz=19mm.
6. Finally, the results were analyzed by using the radiation
pattern, return losses and impedance diagrams.
III. RESULTS
The simulator made the calculus and gave the following
results:
The impedance diagram are shown in the gure 2, the real
impedance is 59.9 and the imaginary part is 0.93j , the
red line represents the imaginary values and the blue one,
the real values. The antenna is coupled approximately to the
desired values. It is fed by a coplanar waveguide instead of a
transmission line.
The return losses diagram is shown in gure 3 , the
bandwidth is measured since -10dB and it is 1.54 GHz, these
kind of antennas does not have a wide bandwidth, this result is
important because the wave is being propagated in the central
frequency, which is 8 GHz.
The radiation pattern shows that the bowtie antenna is di-
rectional, the energy is concentrated in the major lobe between
-60 and 60 degrees, as gure 4 presents.
IV. CONCLUSIONS
The obtained results are the desired. The operating
frequency is 8 GHz, with a bandwidth of 1.54 GHz,
and a return loss of -21.25 dB. The achieved antenna is
adapted and fed through a coplanar waveguide (CPW)
and it is more directional.
To get a different frequency, the variations of the
dimensions of the antenna must be in millimeters.
It is important to couple the atenna with a real
impedance of 50 and a imaginary value of zero, in
this design the values are very approximated.
In this case, the bowtie antenna is not coupled and fed
with different transmission lines and quarter wave trans-
formers, but rather with a coplanar waveguide directly.
PROPAGATION AND ANTENNAS 2
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