UWB antenna array development for GPR applications

Authors

  • Ye. S. Maksimovitch Institute of Applied Physics National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Belarus
  • V. A. Mikhnev Institute of Applied Physics National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Belarus
  • P. Vainikainen Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland
  • V. A. Badeev Institute of Applied Physics National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Belarus

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICATT.2007.4425207

Keywords:

traveling wave antennas, antenna transient analysis, buried object detection, microstrip antennas

Abstract

Theoretical and experimental studies of the influence of mutual arrangement of wideband tapered slot antennas (TSA) in the array are presented. Major attention is paid to reducing antenna coupling. The modeling was done using a transient solver realized in the CST Microwave Studio software. It was found that a parallel displacement of the antennas in the array when the distance between antenna planes is kept, allows to suppress unwanted lateral coupling that leads in turn to reduction of clutter. The antenna array consisting of the TSA had been fabricated and tested in a test site for the detection of low-contrasted objects like anti-personnel mine.

References

MAKSIMOVITCH, Y.; MIKHNEV, V. Antenna System Development for Radar Detection of Shallow Underground Targets. Proc. of the 9th European Conf. on Nondestructive Testing, Berlin, 2006, Paper P144, 8p.

BORYSSENKO, A.O.; SCHAUBERT, D.H. Physical Aspects of Mutual Coupling in Finite Broadband Tapered Slot (Vivaldi) Arrays. Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on Antenna Theory and Techniques, 24-27 May 2005, Kyiv, Ukraine. IEEE, 2005, p.74-79, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICATT.2005.1496887.

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Published

2007-09-22

Issue

2007: ICATT’2007 - Proc. of VI Int. Conf. on Antenna Theory and Techniques

Section

Remote sensing and hydroacoustic antennas