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Broadband Quasi-Yagi Antenna with a Ring-type Balun for Indoor DTV Reception

링형 밸런을 이용한 실내 DTV 수신용 광대역 준-야기 안테나

  • Lee, Jong-Ig (Division of Mechatronics Engineering, Dongseo University) ;
  • Yeo, Junho (School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Daegu University)
  • Received : 2017.01.09
  • Accepted : 2017.02.24
  • Published : 2017.05.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we studied a design method for a broadband 3-element quasi-Yagi antenna (QYA) for indoor digital television (DTV) reception. The proposed QYA employs a novel balun between a microstrip (MS) line and a coplanar strip (CPS) line feeding the driver dipole. The proposed balun is constructed by connecting the end of MS line to CPS line through a shorting pin, and the CPS and ground reflector are connected through a circular ring-type conductor. An antenna, as an design example for the proposed antenna, is designed for the operation in the frequency band of 470-806 MHz for terrestrial DTV. The antenna fabricated on an FR4 substrate with a size of $270mm{\times}150mm$ showed a good performance such as a frequency band of 470-820 MHz for a voltage standing wave ratio < 2, a gain > 4.0 dBi, and a front-to-back ratio > 8.4 dB over the DTV frequency band.

본 논문에서는 실내 디지털 TV(DTV) 수신용 3소자 광대역 준-야기 안테나 (quasi-Yagi antenna; QYA) 설계 방법에 대해 연구하였다. 제안된 QYA는 마이크로스트립(microstrip; MS) 선로와 다이폴 투사기를 급전하는 코플래너스트립(coplanar strip; CPS) 선로 간 밸런을 새로운 형태로 구성하였다. 제안된 밸런은 MS 선로 종단을 CPS에 단락핀으로 연결하여 구성하였으며, CPS 선로와 반사기를 원형 링 도체로 연결하였다. 제안된 구조의 안테나를 지상파 DTV 방송 주파수 대역인 470-806 MHz 대역에서 동작하도록 설계하였다. FR4 기판 상에 $270mm{\times}150mm$ 크기로 제작된 안테나는 전압정재파비가 2 이하인 주파수 대역 470-820 MHz, DTV 대역 내 배열 축 방향으로의 이득 > 4.0 dBi, 전후방비 > 8.4 dB 인 양호한 특성을 보인다.

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