Studies on conformal antenna arrays placed on cylindrical curved surfaces

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.S. Beenamole ◽  
C. A. Sreejith ◽  
Gowri Shankar
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Curved Surfaces ◽  
Conformal Antenna

Design and Analysis of Integrated Wilkinson Power Divider-Fed Conformal High-Gain UWB Array Antenna with Band Rejection Characteristics for WLAN Applications

2020 ◽  
pp. 2150133
Author(s):  
Soufian Lakrit ◽  
Hicham Medkour ◽  
Sudipta Das ◽  
B. T. P. Madhav ◽  
Wael A. E. Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Local Area Network ◽  
Ultra Wideband ◽  
Bending Test ◽  
Power Divider ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Curved Surfaces ◽  
Uwb Antenna ◽  
High Isolation ◽  
Wilkinson Power Divider

Flexible ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna arrays with band notching characteristics are proposed in this work. A new wideband and high-isolation Wilkinson power divider (WPD) is designed to construct the feed systems of the UWB antenna arrays. The proposed WPD is achieved by introducing a significant modification to the conventional WPD and the new one is composed of four isolation stages. Multiple stages helped to achieve wideband from 2[Formula: see text]GHz to more than 12[Formula: see text]GHz with high isolation characteristics of more than 20[Formula: see text]dB and insertion losses around 3.3[Formula: see text]dB. The designed WPD is then applied to feed two UWB monopole antenna arrays which offer a notched band centered at 5.5[Formula: see text]GHz to reject interference from wireless local area network (WLAN) system and can be integrated with curved surfaces. To verify the performance of the proposed structure, two array configurations are practically fabricated and measured. The results show that both the arrays have UWB operational bandwidth (3.5–11.8[Formula: see text]GHz for [Formula: see text] array and 3.6–12[Formula: see text]GHz for [Formula: see text] array) that includes the UWB spectrum. Attractive agreement between simulation and measurement results is obtained. Furthermore, the bending test is carried out on the [Formula: see text] array showing the good performance of the proposed system when installed on curved surfaces for different bent angles.

Evolution of conformal antenna design with the aid of probability improved crow search algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nama Ajay Nagendra ◽  
Lakshman Pappula
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Search Algorithm ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Side Lobe ◽  
Side Lobe Level ◽  
Antenna Element ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Conformal Antenna ◽  
Adopted Model ◽  
Better Than

PurposeThe issues of radiating sources in the existence of smooth convex matters by such objects are of huge significance in the modeling of antennas on structures. Conformal antenna arrays are necessary when an antenna has to match to certain platforms. A fundamental problem in the design is that the possible surfaces for a conformal antenna are infinite in number. Furthermore, if there is no symmetry, each element will see a different environment, and this complicates the mathematics. As a consequence, the element factor cannot be factored out from the array factor.Design/methodology/approachThis paper intends to enhance the design of the conformal antenna. Here, the main objective of this task is to maximize the antenna gain and directivity from the first-side lobe and other side-lobes in the two way radiation pattern. Thus the adopted model is designed as a multiobjective concern. In order to attain this multiobjective function, both the element spacing and the radius of each antenna element should be optimized based on the probability of the Crow Search Algorithm (CSA). Thus the proposed method is named Probability Improved CSA (PI-CSA). Here, the First Null Beam Width (FNBW) and Side-Lobe Level (SLL) are minimized. Moreover, the adopted scheme is compared with conventional algorithms, and the results are attained.FindingsFrom the analysis, the gain of the presented PI-CSA scheme in terms of best performance was 52.68% superior to ABC, 25.11% superior to PSO, 13.38% superior to FF and 3.21% superior to CS algorithms. Moreover, the mean performance of the adopted model was 62.94% better than ABC, 13.06% better than PSO, 24.34% better than FF and 10.05% better than CS algorithms. By maximizing the gain and directivity, FNBW and SLL were decreased. Thus, the optimal design of the conformal antenna has been attained by the proposed PI-CSA algorithm in an effective way.Originality/valueThis paper presents a technique for enhancing the design of the conformal antenna using the PI-CSA algorithm. This is the first work that utilizes PI-CSA-based optimization for improving the design of the conformal antenna.

SEQAR: An Efficient MATLAB Tool for Design and Analysis of Conformal Antenna Arrays [EM Programmer's Notebook]

2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukasz A. Greda ◽  
Christian Koenen ◽  
Nikola Basta ◽  
Achim Dreher
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Conformal Antenna
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