The Square Kilometer Array radio astronomy telescope will achieve the majority of
its extremely large aperture area with thousands of parabolic dishes, each illuminated by a wideband antenna feed, and this thesis introduces a new such antenna. The wide bandwidth of this new antenna is achieved with the development of a directional log periodic antenna. Scaling the log periodic elements into three-dimensional space is the
present method used for directional log periodic antennas. We propose confining these
often complex log periodic elements into a single plane, while the ground "plane" takes
on a three dimensional form, permitting low-cost implementations without requiring
the introduction of a complicated scaffolding to support the log periodic elements in 3-D. This low-cost solution would scale well in the implementation of the thousands of antenna feeds that the Square Kilometer Array demands. We also introduce a previously unreported LP design: the log periodic log spiral antenna.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/2630 |
| Date | 21 April 2010 |
| Creators | McMilin, Emily |
| Contributors | Bornemann, J., Claude, Stéphane M. X. |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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