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Design of UWB Tapered Slot Antenna for the Optimum Impulse Radio Transmitting & Receiving

최적 임펄스 전송을 위한 초광대역 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나 설계

  • Koh, Young-Mok (Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University) ;
  • Ra, Keuk-Hwan (Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
  • Accepted : 2010.05.28
  • Published : 2010.06.30
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Abstract

This paper presents a tapered slot-antenna(TSA) for optimal impulse-signal transmission in ultra-wide band(UWB). The proposed TSA provides radiates in end-fire direction, which meets an impulse-radio UWB(IR-UWB) system demands(e.g., low loss, thus less error throughout the UWB band). In order to minimize the pulse distortion, we used an wideband impedance transformer and a microstrip slotline. The pulse fidelity characteristics was evaluated with finite-difference time-domain(FDTD) analysis technique and pulse fidelity correlation equation. Approximately 93.89 % pulse fidelity was obtained between the two antennas in 0.5 m range. Additionally, derived chirp Z-transform algorithm enables us to utilize the zoom-in option on the pulse signal in few nano-seconds below. Thus, it is possible to analyze the pulse signal distortion, delay or dispersion characteristics.

본 논문에서는 UWB 대역에서 최적 임펄스 신호 전송을 위한 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나(Tapered Slot Antenna: TSA) 설계에 대해 연구하였다. UWB 대역에서 동작하는 TSA는 end-fire 특성을 갖는 광대역 안테나로, 펄스 전송을 위한 IR-UWB(Impulse Radio Ultra-Wide Band) 시스템에 적합하다. 지향성 특성을 갖는 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나는 UWB 대역에서 손실이 적고, 임펄스 전송시 최소 에러를 가져야 한다. 전송되는 펄스 왜곡을 최소로 하기 위해 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나 급전부를 구성하는 광대역 임피던스 변환기와 microstrip/slotline 천이부 설계에 대해 연구하였으며, 설계된 테이퍼 슬롯 안테나에 대한 펄스 충실도는 전자기파에 대한 시간 영역 분석이 가능한 CST를 이용한 FDTD(Finite-Difference Time-Domain) 시뮬레이션과 펄스 상관식 유도를 통해 계산하였으며, 제작된 안테나에 대해 두 안테나를 0.5 미터 이격시킨 두 안테나 사이에서 약 93.89 % 정도의 양호한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 chirp Z-변환 알고리즘을 유도를 통해, 나노초 이하의 펄스 신호에 대해 zoom-in 기능을 부여함으로써 펄스 신호에 대한 왜곡, 지연 및 분산 특성 등의 분석이 가능하다.

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