Frequency Independent Antenna

• Introduction

• If the impedance and the pattern of an antenna do not change significantly over a
bandwidth of 10:1 or more, the antenna is called as frequency independent
antenna.
Condition for frequency
independent
• Rumsey’s principal:
• Rumsey's principle is that the impedance and pattern properties of an
antenna will be frequency-independent if the antenna shape is
specified only in terms of angles.
The upper and lower cutoff
.

frequency:
• According to the definition of frequency independent antenna, the
bandwidth

• BW=Fu/FL

• Bandwidth is 10 : 1 or more. It has upper and lower cutoff frequencies.

Log Periodic Antenna
• Log Periodic Antenna (LPA) is an antenna array of the same type of
dipole elements but the length of these elements increases with a
common ratio.
• All elements are excited by a common input with the same phase.
Structure of Log Periodic
Antenna
• By modifying the simple bowtie antenna different geometries are possible. Some
of these are
(i)The log periodic toothed planer antenna
(ii) The log periodic toothed wire antenna
(iii) The log periodic toothed trapezoid antenna
(iv) The log periodic zig-zag wire antenna
(v) The log periodic dipole array
• These structures are seen one by one in the following discussion.
The Log Periodic Dipole Array (LDPA)
• It consist of a sequence of side-by-side parallel linear dipoles forming
a co-planner array.
• Straight lines through the dipole meet to form an angle.
• Thus as with all log periodic geometeries all dimensions increase in
proportion to the distance from the origin.
• The log periodic dipole array (LDPA) is shown in figure below,
diaram:
Region operation of the array
• (1) transmission line region
• (2)Active region
• (3) reflection region
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