Planar Image-Reject Bow-Tie Antenna With Gain Enhancement for Superheterodyne Applications

A planar bow-tie antenna loaded with open stubs is proposed to realize image rejection and gain enhancement for superheterodyne applications. The loading open stubs are two open-circuit double-sided parallel-strip lines symmetrically connected to the feedline of a planar bow-tie antenna, which functions as a bandstop filter in frequency band lower than the operating frequency to reject image interference and simultaneously as a reflector across the operating frequency band to enhance the antenna gain. Simulated results show that the realized gain of the proposed antenna in the main radiation direction is suppressed by 25 dB at the image frequency and is enhanced by about 3 dB at the operating frequency compared to that of an unloaded antenna. Good agreements between the simulated and the measured results have been observed.

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