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    This document characterizes Vivaldi antennas that utilize a microstrip-to-slotline transition. It summarizes the design of the transition, which couples signals between the microstrip and slotline transmission mediums. Experimental results show the transition achieves around 30% bandwidth. The document also describes the design of the tapered Vivaldi antennas, including their exponential shape profile. Measurements of the antennas' directivity in the E- and H-planes match standards for optimized traveling-wave antennas.

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    This document characterizes Vivaldi antennas that utilize a microstrip-to-slotline transition. It summarizes the design of the transition, which couples signals between the microstrip and slotline transmission mediums. Experimental results show the transition achieves around 30% bandwidth. The document also describes the design of the tapered Vivaldi antennas, including their exponential shape profile. Measurements of the antennas' directivity in the E- and H-planes match standards for optimized traveling-wave antennas.

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    CHARACTERIZATION OF VIVALDI ANTENNAS

    UTILIZING A MICROSTRIP-TO-SLOTLINE TRANSITION


    Burrell*
    Motorola
    Paging and Wireless Data C.roup
    Boynton Beach, F1. 33426-E292
    D.A.

    J.T. Abarlo
    Telecommunications Research :enter
    Arizona State Universit-{
    Tempe, AZ. 85287-7206

    Introduction

    The tapered slot antenna (TSA) consists of a tapered


    slot cut into a thin film of metal which may be
    supported by an electrically thin substrate on one side
    of the film. These antennas exhibit a wide beamwidth
    and moderately high (10-17 dB) directivity for a given
    cross section. Applications of antennas with these
    traits include but are not limited to satellite
    communications, remote sensing, and radio astronomy. To
    take maximum advantage of integrated circuit techniques,
    completely planar geometry should be chosen for tapered
    slot antennas. This is the reason that the transition
    used in this study is microstrip-to-slotline instead of
    finline to slotline or some other non-planar transition.
    In this presentation we investigate the microstrip-toslotline transition and report on experimental results
    for Vivaldi antennas of various lengths and output
    widths.
    MiCrO8fr~p-tO-SlOtlineTransition

    Most microwave integrated circuits(M1Cs) are realized in


    microstrip transmission medium. However, the
    transmission medium best suited for feeding the TSA is
    slotline. In order to couple microwave signals to the
    antenna from a planar microstrip circuit, a transition
    between the microstrip and slotline transmission media
    is needed. When a slotline and a microstrip cross each
    other at right angles and extend approximately onequarter wavelength beyond the crossing point, coupling
    is very strong and a transition covering approximately
    3 0 percent bandwidth can be achieved [l]. In all the
    previous literature, only transitions fabricated on high
    dielectric constant substrates have been considered [21.
    However, in order to maximize the anterna radiation a
    low dielectric constant substrate is highly desirable.
    Therefore, we decided to design and optimize a
    transition for this case. Figs. 1 and 2 show the
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    optimized microstrip-to-slotline transitions' return


    loss and insertion loss respectively. I t - should be
    noted that since the fabricated circuit consists of both
    input and output microstrip-to-slotline transitions, the
    insertion loss should be significantly less for the
    antenna because it has only one transition.
    Description of the Antenna

    The Vivaldi antenna, Fig. 3, has an exponential shape


    defined by [ 3 ]
    y(x) = 2 A*ePX

    where
    A

    + B

    - amplitude of the antenna

    - shaping factor of the antenna profile


    B - constant

    The Vivaldi antenna is essentially frequency


    independent, since at a given wavelength only a section
    of the exponential actually radiates efficiently. As
    the wavelength varies, radiation occurs from a different
    section which is scaled in size in proportion to the
    wavelength, and has the same relative shape. This
    translates into an antenna with a large bandwidth. From
    Ffg. 3 it can be seen that the Vivaldi antenna is
    divided into two areas:
    - a propagating area defined by WE < W < WA
    - a radiating area defined bl? WA c W < WO

    where

    W - slot width
    WE - input width
    WA - slot width at radiating area
    WO - output width

    Results and Conclusion

    The Vivaldi antennas were designed to operate at 10 GHz


    and fabricated on Duroid 5870 which has a dielectric
    constant of 2 . 3 3 and a thickness of 30 mils. Figs. 3
    and 4 show the directivity in the E- and H-plane
    respectively for the optimized antenna. The values for
    the directivity compared favorably to the curves
    produced by Zucker [ 4 ] which are the standards for
    determining whether tapered slot antennas behave as well
    optimized traveling-wave antennas or not. The slight

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    discrepancies in the directivity value. could be due to


    the loss experienced from the microstrip-to-slotline
    transition as well as tolerances in the, fabrication
    process.

    References
    [l]

    Mariani, C.P. Heinzman, J . P . Agrios, and S.B.


    Cohn, "Slot line characteristics,"IEEE T r a n s .
    Microwave Theroy and T e c h . , vol. MTT-17, pp. 1091
    - 1096, Dec. 1969.

    [2]

    Jeffrey B. Knorr, "Slot-line trarsitions, IEEE


    T r a n s . Microwave Theory and T e c h . , vol MTT - 22,
    pp. 548 - 554, May 1974.

    [31

    M. Helier, P Lartigue, and D. Lecointe, "Analysis


    of the non-uniform slot-line antennas," Service
    d ' Electromagnetism
    CNRS - EST:, pp. 194 - 197
    June 1987.

    E.A.

    "

    , ' I

    [41

    F.J. zucker, "Surface- and leaky-waveantennas,


    in A n t e n n a E n g i n e e r i n g Handbook. H. Jasik, Ed. New
    York: McGraw Hill, 1961, pp. 16-34 - 16-16.

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    Fig. 4

    Eplane directivity of Vivaldi antenna

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