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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2011.22.2.131

Design of a Double-Faced Window Printed Antenna for Aircraft Applications  

Byun, Gang-Il (School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University)
Han, Wone-Keun (Department of Physics, Hongik University)
Choo, Ho-Sung (School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science / v.22, no.2, 2011 , pp. 131-139 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a double-faced window printed antenna for aircraft applications. The proposed antenna structure consists of a feeding line and a multi-loop radiator located on different sides of the window to use the limited given-area effectively. The proposed antenna is optimized by the genetic algorithm in conjunction with the FEKO EM simulator. The optimized antenna is built and installed on a 1/10 sized KUH-Surion mock-up and antenna performances such as the reflection coefficient and the radiation patterns are measured. The optimized antenna shows a half power matching bandwidth of about 33 % at 60 MHz and an average bore-sight gain of about -3.49 dBi. To verify the reception capability of the optimized antenna, we simulated the received power according to a flight scenario. The result confirms that the optimized antenna shows a minimum received power level above -60 dBm at a range of 200 km, which is similar to the pole antenna that is currently used as a FM voice antenna for KUH-Surion.
Keywords
On-Glass Antenna; Aircraft Antenna; FM Antenna;
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