Developing a Compact, Planar, Ultra-Wideband Antenna

Trivec Avant / Cobham
2012–13

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 (225 MHz–2000 MHz) with return loss below –5 dB and directivity at azimuth above –6 dBi across the entire frequency band.

Advisor(s): John Molinder.

Team: Douglas Michael Hu ’14, Diana Yee Mar ’14, Brett D. Mills ’14, Trevor Earl Apple ’13, Matthew T. Goodwin ’13, and Parker Kauffman Martin ’13.