A Technique for Broadbanding the CPW-Fed Bow-Tie Slot Antenna

Kim, Sung-Hak; Wen, Lijun; Ko, Han-Woong; park, Dong-Hee; Ahn, Bierng-Chearl

Journal of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic and Science 2005;5(1):14-20.

Sung-Hak Kim¹, Lijun Wen¹, Han-Woong Ko¹, Dong-Hee park², Bierng-Chearl Ahn¹

¹Department of Radio Engineering, Graduate School, Chungbuk National University
²School of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering, Chungju University

Abstract

In this paper, a technique is presented for broadbanding the bow-tie slot antenna fed by a CPW(coplanar waveguide). The bandwidth performance of existing bow-tie slot designs is greatly enhanced by optimizing the slot shape and properly adjusting the characteristic impedance of the coplanar waveguide feeding the slot. To connect the 50-ohm input coaxial line to the CPW feed line, a linear taper in the CPW is employed. The designed antenna shows a 3.5 $~$ 10.0 GHz impedance bandwidth, a 3.5 $~$ 6.0 GHz pattern bandwidth, and a 5.5 $~$ 7.5 dBi gain over 3.5 $~$ 6.0 GHz. Above 6.0 GHz, the antenna radiation pattern appreciably deviates from the typical dipolar pattern.