Compact Planar, Omnidirectional, Ultra-wideband Antenna

Trivec Avant / Cobham
2000–01

While modern software radio systems are compact and capable of output across a wide frequency range, existing antenna designs capable of transmitting across a wide frequency range in all directions are too wide and unwieldy for many mobile platforms.  Trivec Avant Corporation team has tasked the Harvey Mudd team with designing a compact, planar, and ultra-wideband (225-20000MHz) antenna that radiates omnidirectionally in azimuth.

 

Advisor(s): John Molinder.