DESIGN OF A BALUN FOR A BOW TIE ANTENNA IN RECONFIGURABLE GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS

DESIGN OF A BALUN FOR A BOW TIE ANTENNA INRECONFIGURABLE GROUND PENETRATING RADARSYSTEMSR. PersicoIstituto per il Beni Archeologici e MonumentaliConsiglio Nazionale delle RicercheVia Monteroni, Campus Universitario, Lecce 73100, ItalyN. RomanoDipartimento di Ingegneria dell’InformazioneSeconda Universitµa degli studi di NapoliVia Roma 29, Aversa 81031, ItalyF. SoldovieriIstituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’AmbienteConsiglio Nazionale delle RicercheVia Diocleziano 328, Napoli 80124, ItalyAbstract|This paper deals with the design of a reconflgurableantenna that resembles a monolithic UWB bow-tie antenna for GroundPenetrating Radar (GPR) applications. In particular, the attentionis focussed on the design of the balun system able to work in thefrequency band 0.3{1GHz; the efiectiveness of the design is shown byexamining the behaviour of the scattering parameters

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