Developing a Compact, Planar, Ultra-Wideband Antenna

Trivec Avant Corporation, a COBHAM Company Engineering/Physics, 2012-13

Liaison(s): David Macy, John Fenick
Advisor(s): John Molinder
Students(s): Trevor Apple (TL-S), Matt Goodwin (TL-F), Parker Martin, Diana Mar (S), Douglas Hu (F), Brett Mills (F)

Most antennas with wideband range and high directionality are three dimensional in shape, with spiral and bicone antenna geometries as notably useful and common examples. A three dimensional shape makes antennas non-ideal for aerospace applications. Trivec Avant asked the Clinic team to develop a planar, ultra-wideband antenna (225MHz-2000MHz) with return loss below -5dB and directivity at azimuth above -6dBi across the entire frequency band.