A Wide-Band Printed Double-Sided Dipole Array

Abstract

A 32-element wide-band printed dipole array is analyzed and successfully implemented. The elements used are double-sided printed dipoles fed with a balanced twin-lead transmission line. A wide-band balun and a launcher system for the array were designed and implemented. Excellent correlation between simulated and measured radiation patterns was observed and good overall performance with a bandwidth in excess of an octave was obtained.