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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Design and Analysis of Star Spiral with Application to Wideband Arrays with Variable Element Sizes

Caswell, Eric D. 08 January 2002 (has links)
This dissertation details the development of the star spiral antenna and demonstrates the advantages of the star spiral when used in a wideband array with variable element sizes. The wideband array with variable element sizes (WAVES) is a multi-octave array that uses different sized circular Archimedean spirals for each octave of frequency coverage. A two-octave WAVES array has been presented in the literature, but a gap in the two-octave frequency coverage exists along the principal axes. The star spiral antenna was developed to eliminate the performance gap in the WAVES array. The star spiral is a type of slow-wave spiral that also offers array-packing advantages, particularly for the WAVES array. The size reduction that can be achieved with the star spiral is comparable to that of the square spiral, but the star spiral is much more efficient in terms of its expected size reduction compared to its circumference. The far-field patterns, gain, and scan performance of the star spiral are similar to that of the circular Archimedean spiral. The use of the star spiral to eliminate the performance gap in a WAVES array of circular Archimedean spirals is detailed. Furthermore, a three-octave WAVES array of star spirals is built and measured, and the scan performance of the array is investigated via simulation. / Ph. D.
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Utilização de antena fractal de microfita em projetos de estruturas eletricamente pequenas e independentes da frequência

Ribeiro, Daniel Luiz 09 September 2016 (has links)
Antenas fractais são estruturas irradiadoras geradas recursivamente a partir da aplicação reiterada de um fator de conjunto gerador, possuindo a característica marcante de ser auto semelhante. São baseadas na teoria dos fractais desenvolvida por Mandelbrot e cuja aplicação se encontra presente em quase todos os ramos da ciência. Tais antenas possuem hoje inúmeras aplicações, de celulares a antenas de satélites, e têm se mostrado uma alternativa atraente para aplicações que requeiram característica de multibanda associada a alto ganho e miniaturização. O presente trabalho procura apresentar de forma sistemática a teoria básica envolvendo antenas fractais, tendo-se por base não apenas as contribuições pioneiras de pesquisadores no mundo todo, mas também a teoria básica de antenas, a partir das quais é possível chegar-se a formulações importantes na área. O foco é para antenas de microfita, dada a grande popularidade que têm encontrado nas últimas décadas. Além de vasta bibliografia, contou-se com o auxílio da ferramenta computacional HFSS da Ansoft®, um software que simula estruturas em alta frequência. Este programa é utilizado para simular uma antena fractal de microfita proposta pelo autor, e os resultados são analisados tendo-se um duplo propósito: exemplificar o uso de uma antena fractal, por um lado, e fornecer um protótipo que porventura poderá ser utilizado em aplicações especiais, por algum projetista de antenas. Os principais parâmetros fundamentais de antenas são analisados, como Perda de Retorno, VSWR, Ganho, etc., mas será dada ênfase especial à aplicação de estruturas fractais de microfita em dois tipos de aplicações: antenas eletricamente pequenas e antenas independentes da frequência. / Fractal Antennas are radiating structures generated recursively from the reiterated application of a generating array, having the remarkable feature of being self similar. They are based on the theory of fractal developed by Mandelbrot and whose application is present in almost every branches of science. Such antennas have many applications today, from cell phones to satellite antennas, and have proved to be an attractive alternative for applications that required multiband characteristic associated with high gain and miniaturization. This paper aims do present systematically the basic theory involving fractal antennas, and is based not only on the pioneering contributions of researchers around the world, but also the basic theory of antennas, from which is possible to reach important formulations in the area. Besides the extensive bibliography, was used the computational tool HFSS by Ansoft®, a software that simulates high frequency structures. This program is used to simulate a fractal microstrip antenna proposed by the author, and the results are analyzed, having a dual propose: to exemplify the use of fractal antenna on the one hand, and providing a prototype which could possible be used in special applications, for some designer of antennas. The main fundamental parameters of antennas are analyzed, such as Return Loss, VSWR, Gain, etc., but special emphasis will be given to the application of fractal microstrip structures in two kinds of applications: electrically small antennas and frequency independent antennas. / Dissertação (Mestrado)

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