Author : R. Pallavi 1
Date of Publication :7th March 2017
Abstract: This paper discusses the design, simulation of medium gain, lightweight, wide beamwidth pyramidal horn antenna pair for terrestrial microwave line of sight communication in mobile & wireless applications. This antenna has been designed for Kband frequencies widely used in terrestrial microwave communication for mobile & wireless applications. Simulated horn antenna pair shows wideband characteristics of VSWR < 2 for bandwidth range of minimum 8GHz. Antenna is linearly polarized and show wide beam characteristics in azimuth plane with minimum gain of 16.9dB. E-field & H-field analysis for K-band Applications for pyramidal horn feeds have also been discussed. Absolute gain measurement techniques have been employed for the measurement of antenna gain. Design meets the ruggedness, strength & reliability, durability, weight, corrosion resistance, temperature variation requirements of terrestrial/ line of sight (LOS) communication. Design, Simulation & Optimization for K-band pyramidal horn antenna pair has been done on ANSOFT HFSS 13.
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