A Low Frequency Ultra-Wideband Electrically Small Monopole Antenna for HF/VHF Application

Authors

  • Yinfeng Xia College of Information and Communication Engineering Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
  • Wei Xue College of Information and Communication Engineering Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
  • Yingsong Li 1 College of Information and Communication Engineering Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China , 2 Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, National Space Science Center Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • Wanlu Shi College of Information and Communication Engineering Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
  • Beiming Li College of Information and Communication Engineering Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China

Keywords:

Electrically small monopole antenna, nonfoster circuit, ultra-bandwidth

Abstract

In this paper, a low frequency ultra-wideband electrically small monopole antenna (ESMA) with a nonfoster circuit (NFC) loading for HF/VHF application is proposed. The devised ESMA has a very small height of 30 cm at 18 MHz, whose performance is severely limited due to the electrically small size characterized by large reactance and small radiation resistance. To conquer the limitation of the passive matching method, a NFC is developed and properly designed to cancel out the large reactance of ESMA and broaden the bandwidth. In this paper, the design principle is presented in detail for devising an ESMA system. At last, circuit and electromagnetism co-simulation is constructed to make the results more accurate and convinced. The simulated and measured results indicate that a -10 dB fractional bandwidth of 169% ranging from 18 MHz to 218 MHz is obtained for the designed ESMA matched by the NFC.

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2019-07-01

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Yinfeng Xia, Wei Xue, Yingsong Li, Wanlu Shi, and Beiming Li, “A Low Frequency Ultra-Wideband Electrically Small Monopole Antenna for HF/VHF Application”, ACES Journal, vol. 34, no. 07, pp. 1050–1057, Jul. 2019.

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