ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION 1

The CPW Fed Bowtie Antenna for 8 GHz

Edison Borja
Cristian Jacho
Marilyn Carrion
Kateryne Niama
Washington Santos
Electronic Engineering in Telecommunications and Network
AbstractThis paper show the design of Bowtie Antenna with
essential characteristics coupled to a waveguide with the work
frequency of 8 GHz and a lumped port excitation will be used
for the CPW fed. Using Ansoft HFSS software v13.0, program
which will help us better understand how this type of antenna.
Index TermsBowtie antenna, CPW, microstrip patch and
lumped port.
I. INTRODUCTION
S
EVERAL geometric parameters of the antenna were var-
ied to observe the impedance matching between the CPW-
feed and the antenna. The inductively coupled CPW feeding
mechanism makes the concept suitable for array applications.
The bandwidth reduction for an inductively coupled straight-
dipole slot is overcome by utilizing an inductively coupled
bow-tie slot.
The bowtie patch actually is the combination of imaginary
image of two triangular patches witch are fabricated in a single
substrate. Bowtie microstrip antennas have become popular in
the present day communication scenario due to their in nature
compared to rectangular patches.
The Bowtie microstrip antennas have been designed for
wireless LAN communication, where the operating frequency
8 GHZ. Design of Bowtie microstrip antenna is based on
design of triangular microstrip antenna.[2]
The Bowtie patch actually is the combination of imaginary
image of two triangular patches which are fabricated in a
single substrate.
Comparison between the Bowtie and the fractal antennas
shows that the bow tie antenna has a wider bandwidth, higher
gain, lower front-to-back ratio, lower cross-polarization level
and smaller in size.[1].
II. METHOD
A. Microstrip Bowtie
To create the substrate the antenna is necessary obtain
guidance measures. HFSS provides a tool for these
calculations. The measures for width is -17.0 mm and
length is 32,0 mm and create copper cladding with the same
measures. Note that this distance is obtained only for the
frequency, in this case 8 GHZ.
Part Distance (mm)
1 -2.435
2 2.339
3 0.6
TABLE I
LOOP DISTANCE
Fig. 1. Bowtie Antenna
The next step, is connect the loop with other similar loop,
therefore, rst, prove connecting two loops with a coupler, in
this case, a transmission line.
Through a sweep of the simulation through different
frequencies, beginning in 6 GHz and ending in 10 GHz,
can on obtained the results of antenna about impedances.
Showing a interesting results, because after of optimization,
has gotten a very good approximation, at 8 GHz, it is the
operating frequency.
ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION 2
B. Results
Now, other graphic obtained with HFSS is about the
parameter S, in the Fig. 2 is showing the result, in this, can
be seen at 8 GHz,can concluded that the antenna is working
at the ideal reection coefcient.
Fig. 2. Reection Coefcient Graphic
This diagram, show how irradiate the antenna, all these, in
a polar scale. The Fig 3 is explained the Radiation Pattern.
Similar to this, Fig.4 is a 3D diagram, is created by the
software HFSS, this exposed the Radiation Pattern with a
color scale showing the wave power.
Fig. 3. Radiation Pattern
Fig. 4. 3D Radiation Pattern
III. CONCLUSIONS
Thanks to this work we could better understand the
prototypes of bowtie slot antennas fed by CPW-bowtie
antenna and performance is simulated with the help of
Ansoft HFSS software v13.0, this is based on the nite
element method (FEM), adaptive meshing to give unmatched
performance ie it can calculate parameters such as S
parameters, resonance Frequency and Field, helping us to
better understand its operation.
For the design of the CPW Fed Bowtie Antenna at a lower
frequency dimensions of its structure, in this case we use the
frequency of 8GHz, with which we obtubimos bandwidth of
1.4GHz are reduced.
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[2] Web Page. http : //www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1434/
[3] Web Page. http : //ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/
[4] Web Page. http : //www.antenna
theory.com/antennas/wideband/bowtie.php
[5] Web Page. http : //www.ijmot.com/ijmot/uploaded/1015596486.pdf