Design and Implementation of Step-Constant Tapered Slot Antennas for UWB Application

Abstract

This paper presents the analytical design and high performance of step-constant tapered slot antenna (STSA) for ultra-wideband application. The return loss, radiation pattern, antenna gain, and level of cross polarization of this antenna are presented and analyzed. Utilizing Rogers (RO3006) substrate having a relative permittivity of 6.15, the proposed antenna provides the ultra-wideband (UWB) from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz. It is observed that the return loss and gain are increased with increasing the step size. It has been observed from the simulation results incorporating CST microwave studio commercial software version 2015, the optimum return loss, directivity and gain are −43 dB, 10.52 dBi and 10.20 dB, respectively, for 15 step size. Therefore, the newly proposed antenna will be a decent candidate for ultra-wideband application.

Comparative Analysis on Antenna Balun and Feeding Techniques of Step Constant Tapered Slot Antenna

“…Among the various types of antenna, tapered slot antenna (TSA) is one of the most important, which exhibits a wide operational bandwidth, improves gain, and identical radiation pattern. A typical Tapered Slot Antenna (TSA) consists of a tapered slot cut in a thin film of a metal plate with an electrically thin substrate on one side of the film [9] [10] [11] [12]. Numerous research work has been conducted for improving the performance of the TSA antenna and utilizing this antenna in wireless communications, remote sensing, biosensing, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) system, etc.…”