Flexible Efficient Quasi-Yagi Printed Uniplanar Antenna

Ming Chun Tang; Ting Shi; Richard W. Ziolkowski

doi:10.1109/TAP.2015.2486807

Flexible Efficient Quasi-Yagi Printed Uniplanar Antenna

Ming Chun Tang, Ting Shi, Richard W. Ziolkowski

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

A flexible quasi-Yagi printed antenna that is a compact, efficient directive radiator is demonstrated. The simple uniplanar design incorporates an arc-shaped strip, which serves as a near-field resonant parasitic (NFRP) element, and a coplanar-waveguide (CPW)-fed semiloop antenna. The simulated and experimental results that are in good agreement confirm the forward endfire nature of the antenna. The total electrical size is only 0.17λ₀ × 0.43λ₀, while having a high radiation efficiency to achieve a 5.76 dBi realized gain. A backward endfire version illustrates the radiation principles of the design. By mounting the uniplanar antenna conformally on a cylindrical structure, it is demonstrated numerically and experimentally that its radiation performance characteristics are maintained, confirming that only minor effects are introduced under bending conditions.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	7289377
Pages (from-to)	5343-5350
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume	63
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2015.2486807
State	Published - Dec 2015

Keywords

Compact
directivity
endfire radiation
flexible antennas
printed antennas
uniplanar antennas

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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