A 3D-Printed Tapered Cavity-Backed Flush-Mountable Ultra-Wideband Antenna for UAV

Seongkyu Lee; Sunryul Kim; Youngmi Park; Jaehoon Choi

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2949795

IEEE Access (Jan 2019)

A 3D-Printed Tapered Cavity-Backed Flush-Mountable Ultra-Wideband Antenna for UAV

Seongkyu Lee,
Sunryul Kim,
Youngmi Park,
Jaehoon Choi

Affiliations

Seongkyu Lee: ORCiD; Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
Sunryul Kim: Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
Youngmi Park: Electronic Warfare PMO, Agency for Defense Development, Daejeon, South Korea
Jaehoon Choi: Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2949795
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7
pp. 156612 – 156619

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A tapered cavity-backed flush-mountable dual mono-cone antenna is proposed. The proposed antenna consists of four main sections: a lower mono-cone, an upper mono-cone, novel feeding structures, and an exponentially tapered cavity. To obtain high-frequency band operation, the upper mono-cone excited by the feeding structures is located inside the lower mono-cone. The circular cavity used in the proposed antenna has a tapered wall for mitigating the deterioration of radiation performance. The proposed antenna has overall dimensions of 200 mm × 200 mm × 30 mm. The measured reflection coefficients (S-parameters) are below -10 dB from 1.43 GHz to 39.05 GHz (1:27.3). The measured radiation pattern has a quasi- omnidirectional characteristic in the operating frequency band.

Published in IEEE Access

ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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