HIGH-T-c SUPERCONDUCTING SMALL ANTENNAS

被引:2
作者
Itoh, K. [1 ]
Ishii, O. [1 ]
Nagai, Y. [1 ]
Suzuki, N. [1 ]
Kimachi, Y. [1 ]
Michikami, O. [1 ]
机构
[1] NTT Interdisciplinary Res Labs, 162 Shirakata Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 31911, Japan
关键词
Antenna radiation - Ceramic materials - Copper oxides - High temperature superconductors;
D O I
10.1109/77.233992
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
This paper describes the designs and reports experimental results for one- and two-element high-T, superconducting small antennas composed of self-presonant helical radiators and quarter-wave matching circuits. A 500-MHz-band antenna employing a lambda/40 (lambda is the free-space wavelength) radiator fabricated with Bi(Pb)SrCaCuO bulk realized an actual gain of 1.2 dBi, which indicates that this antenna achieves a high efficiency of 70%. Next, a 900-MHz-band two-element array antenna employing lambda/20 radiators with a lambda/11 element spacing was designed to obtain a superdirective radiation pattern. The array antenna thus fabricated with YBaCuO bulk, realized both a higher efficiency than a Cu antenna and a unidirectional radiation pattern. Furthermore, by adopting EuBaCuO thin-film meander lines as the matching circuit, the total length could be reduced to about 1/4 that of an antenna using a linear circuit.
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页码:2836 / 2839
页数:4
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