Design and realization of archimedes spiral antenna for Radar detector at 2-18 GHz frequencies

• Published in: 2013 19th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) pp. 304 - 309
• Main Authors: Wahab, Mashury, Saputera, Yussi Perdana, Wahyu, Yuyu
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-08-2013
• Subjects: antenna; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; archimedes; detector; Impedance; Radar; Radar antennas; Spiral; Spirals
• ISSN: 2163-0771
• DOI: 10.1109/APCC.2013.6765961

In this paper, a realization of archimedes spiral antenna for a Radar detector is presented, where this Radar detectors are used to detect Radar signal transmission within the frequency range of 2-18 GHz. In this research, an antenna was designed for the above information band. Multiple frequency bands covered by this antenna S band (2-4 GHz), C band (4-8 GHz), X band (8-12 GHz) and Ku band (12-18 GHz). The designed antenna has a shape of a spiral with a diameter of 5 cm. The antenna was implemented on a Roger Duroid 5880 substrate with εr = 2.2, thickness of 0.787 mm, and 1 oz for copper cladding. These spiral antennas have ultra wideband characteristics due to the planar structure and circular polarization with impedance of 188 Ohm. From the simulation results of the designed antenna, we obtained VSWR of 1.1 up to 1,27, a gain ranging from 3 to 6 dBi, with 3dB bandwidth of 61.7 degree. There is a similarity between the measurements and the simulation results. The realized antennas show advantages, e.g., VSWR <;2 and high gain, compared which the existing antennas in the market.