Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION
Volume 65, Issue 8, Pages 4274-4277Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2710227
Keywords
Bow-tie; coplanar waveguides (CPWs); flexible antennas; omnidirectional antennas; slot antennas
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A bow-tie antenna based on a slot configuration in a single metal sheet on top of a very thin flexible substrate is introduced. The antenna is constructed from two slotted right-angle triangles fed by a coplanar waveguide transmission line. The topology is very simple and extremely easy to tune in order to reach the proper characteristics after mounting on a supporting structure. A prototype is designed, fabricated, and characterized experimentally. The tunability is proven by considering both the version in free space and the version for use on a brick wall. Measurements demonstrate good agreement with simulations. Both versions cover the wireless local area network (2.4 and 3.65 GHz) and WiMax (2.3, 2.5, and 3.5 GHz) spectra, with an overall impedance bandwidth of 1.79 GHz (57.7%) and 1.46 GHz (49.7%), respectively. The radiation of the antenna is bidirectional with maximum gains of 6.30 and 5.09 dBi for the free space and brick wall versions, respectively.
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