Quarter Wave Monopole

•Quarter Wave Monopole

•The Monopole antenna consists of one half of a λ/2
antenna located on a perfect conducting ground
plane.

•The monople antenna is perpendicular top the

plane, which is usually assumed to be infinite and
perfectly conducting.

•It is fed by a coaxial cable connected to its base.

• Using Image Theory, we can replace the
infinite perfectly conducting ground plane
with the image of monople
• The field produced in the region above the
ground plane due to the quarter wave
monopole with its image is same as the field
due to half wave dipole.
• The E and H components are same for half
wave dipole and quarter wave monople.
 • The power radiated is over the surface above
the ground plane is

0  
2
  
 2
cos cos  
j Im e  jr
then H    
2r  Sin 
 

E  60
jI m e  j



 cos  cos
2

2r  Sin 
 
  
I o cos  cos 
2 2

Pave    2  a
8 r sin 
2 2 2 r
 Quarter wave Monopole
Prad   Pave .ds .......
 
I o cos  cos 
2 2

 
 2
  / 2 2
Prad   Pave .ds   0   ar .ds
8 r sin 
0 2 2 2
 00

 
I o cos  cos 
2 2

2  a .r 2 Sindda
 2
  / 2
  0  
8 r sin 
0 2 2 2 r r
 0
0

 
I o cos  cos 
2 2

2  .r 2 Sindd
 2
  / 2
  0  
8 2 r 2 sin 2 
0
 0
0
  
cos  cos 
2

I o   2 
2

 2  0 d 
  / 2
 2  d
8 sin 
0
 0 0

 
cos  cos 
2

I o
2
  / 2
 2 * 2 *   2  d
8  0 sin 
0

120I o
2

 * 2 * 0.605
8 2

 30I o * 0.605
2

Prad  18.15I o
2
Radiation Resistance
We know that Prad=Irms2Rrad

1 2 I max Io
Prad  I o Rrad but I rms  
2 2 2
2 * Prad
Rrad  2
Io
2
2 *18.15I o
Rrad  2  36.5
Io
• From equation (e)
4U max
Directivit y  ....( 6)
Prad

Sub (4) and (5) in (6)

15
I2
4
Directivit y  *   3.305
0

2
18.15I 0

D=3.3.5 for quarter wave monopole