THz hybrid metal-plasma Yagi antenna with right-angle reflector
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摘要: 为了满足可工作于太赫兹频段以及较好的方向性和高增益的需求,在等离子体天线的基础上提出了新型等离子体-金属混合八木天线,在其中将反射振子替换为夹直角反射板。根据等离子体天线及八木天线设计理论,设计了该天线的结构并初步确定了其结构参数。通过电磁仿真研究了不同天线-顶点间距情况下天线的回波损耗、增益、电压驻波比和辐射方向图,最终实现了结构参数优化。与不带反射板的天线的对比结果表明,该结构具有更高的增益与更优的前后比。Abstract: A new kind of THz hybrid metal-plasma Yagi antenna has been proposed on the basis of plasma antenna to meet the requirements of good directivity and high gain, in which reflection oscillator is replaced by right-angle reflector. The structure is designed by the theory of plasma antenna and Yagi antenna, and the parameters are preliminarily determined. Then electromagnetic simulation is carried out to examine the performance parameters of the Yagi antenna, such as the return loss, gain, voltage standing wave ratio and radiation pattern, in which the condition of different distances between the vertex of angle reflector and dipole is considered. Contrasted with the antennas without angle reflector, the structure proposed in this article has much higher gain and better front-to-rear ratio.
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Key words:
- plasma /
- Yagi antenna /
- reflector /
- pattern /
- gain
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表 1 有反射板的天线在不同的S1时各项性能的比较
Table 1. Performance comparison of antenna with reflector at different S1
S1 minimum return loss/dB center frequency/GHz gain/dB VSWR HPBW/(°) 0.25λ0 -19.377 101.35 6.143 1.240 80.5 0.5λ0 -48.448 102.13 8.541 1.008 52.6 0.75λ0 -38.607 102.03 8.899 1.024 32.8 λ0 -28.916 101.78 8.264 1.074 29.7 1.5λ0 -27.273 102.09 11.7 1.090 14.4 表 2 无反射板的天线在不同的S1时各项性能的比较
Table 2. Performance comparison of antenna without reflector at different S1
S1 minimum return loss/dB center frequency/GHz gain/dB VSWR HPBW/(°) 0.25λ0 -29.929 101.26 5.939 1.094 105.7 0.5λ0 -27.220 101.36 3.997 1.091 156.1 0.75λ0 -22.129 100.55 5.140 1.170 107.7 λ0 -23.734 100.65 4.531 1.139 126.4 1.5λ0 -41.011 101.38 4.630 1.018 115.3 -
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