Numerical Study of Extremely Wideband-Modified Biconical Radiation Structures for Electronic Support Measures Application
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Abstract
Using the finite difference time domain (FD-TD) method, this paper studies radiation structures that can have multiple tunable frequency bands between 0.4 GHz and 4 GHz, a fixed band in [3.97, 5.36] GHz and an extremely wideband from 6.14 GHz to 68.27 GHz, where a frequency band is defined by the voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) less than or equal to two. The base radiation structure has a modified-biconical antenna configuration, called base MBA, and is fed by a square-coaxial line with characteristic impedance close to 50 ohms. A dielectric ring and an outer dielectric cover are used between the two modified cones to enlarge the frequency band and strengthen the structure. An equal number of metallic-rings can be stacked at both circular-ends of cones in the base MBA to tune the positions of the frequency bands that are lower than 4 GHz and to alter their vertical polarization (V-pol) patterns. However, compared with those of the base MBA, these stacked metallic rings do not make significant changes to the VSWR in the [3.97, 5.36] GHz and [6.14, 28.27] GHz bands and the radiation patterns in the [6.14, 28.27] GHz band. The simulation results show that the base MBA and its metallic-ring-loaded versions all have V-pol radiation characteristics at all frequency bands and have donut-shaped omnidirectional patterns only when the wavelength is bigger than the length of the structure. When the wavelength is less than the size of the radiation structure, the donut shape is modified with ripples on the V-pol radiation pattern. Sometimes deep notches could be observed when MBAs operated at the higher end of the extremely wideband. A 0.2 mm cube was used to construct the antenna structures with the consideration of using the 3D metal/dielectric printer technology to build the antennas in the future.
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