Microstrip-fed quasi-Yagi antenna with broadband characteristics

@article{citeulike:2801463, abstract = {A compact and uniplanar antenna with broadband characteristics is presented. The novel Yagi-like printed dipole array antenna is fed by a microstrip-to-coplanar strip transition, and uses the truncated microstrip ground plane as its reflecting element. An X-band prototype measures a bandwidth of 17\%. With 6.5 dB gain, 18 dB front-to-back ratio, and lower than -15 dB cross-polarisation level at 10 GHz}, author = {Qian, Y. and Deal, W. R. and Kaneda, N. and Itoh, T. }, booktitle = {Electronics Letters}, citeulike-article-id = {2801463}, journal = {Electronics Letters}, keywords = {antenna, broadband, microstrip}, number = {23}, pages = {2194--2196}, posted-at = {2008-05-15 13:17:22}, priority = {2}, title = {Microstrip-fed quasi-Yagi antenna with broadband characteristics}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs\_all.jsp?arnumber=739580}, volume = {34}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2801463 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2801463 TI - Microstrip-fed quasi-Yagi antenna with broadband characteristics T2 - Electronics Letters JF - Electronics Letters VL - 34 IS - 23 SP - 2194 EP - 2196 N2 - A compact and uniplanar antenna with broadband characteristics is presented. The novel Yagi-like printed dipole array antenna is fed by a microstrip-to-coplanar strip transition, and uses the truncated microstrip ground plane as its reflecting element. An X-band prototype measures a bandwidth of 17%. With 6.5 dB gain, 18 dB front-to-back ratio, and lower than -15 dB cross-polarisation level at 10 GHz KW - antenna KW - broadband KW - microstrip AU - Qian, Y AU - Deal, WR AU - Kaneda, N AU - Itoh, T PY - 1998/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=739580 ER -