A novel broadband bow-tie antenna with high-gain performance throughout the operating band is proposed and investigated in this article. This folded sectorial bow-tie antenna is fed by a Г-shaped strip balun, and the electromagnetic coupling feed mechanism is easy to optimize the impedance matching. The study of proposed antenna performance with different geometric parameters has been conducted. The final design is fabricated and measured, and the results exhibit a good impedance bandwidth of approximately 93.3% for VSWR≤2 ranging from 1.35 to 3.71 GHz, stable gain of 8.43-10.02 dBi, and unidirectional radiation patterns over the whole operating band. Broadband coverage, stable high-gain performance, and the simple structure make this antenna an excellent candidate for wireless communication systems.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.