Optimized Monopole and Dipole Antennas for UWB Asset Tag Location Systems

Authors

Antoine Dumoulin, Technological University Dublin
Matthias John, Technological University DublinFollow
Max Ammann, Technological University DublinFollow
Patrick McEvoy, Technological University DublinFollow

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Communication engineering and systems

Publication Details

IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 2896-2904, 2012

Abstract

Miniaturized monopole and dipole antenna designs are reported with performances optimized for ultrawideband pulsed radio applications. The geometries are created using Bézier spline shapes, which have been refined with a genetic algorithm to simultaneously take account of both frequency- and time-domain criteria. Time-domain measurements of ultra wideband antennas with uniformly distributed energy across the full 3.1-10.6 GHz mask are reported for the first time and validate a new approach to minimization of pulse dispersion effects in the antenna designs.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2012.2194686

Recommended Citation

Dumoulin, A., et al. (2012) Optimized Monopole and Dipole Antennas for UWB Asset Tag Location Systems, Transactions on Antennas & Propagation, IEEE, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 2896-2904. DOI:10.1109/TAP.2012.2194686

Funder

SFI