The folded dipole: A self-balancing antenna

✍ Scribed by Carey G. Buxton; Warren L. Stutzman; Randall R. Nealy; Aaron M. Orndorff

• Book ID: 102948050
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 593 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-2477
• DOI: 10.1002/mop.1114

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The folded dipole is known to have a fourfold increase in input impedance over that of a dipole. However, the half‐wavelength folded dipole also maintains a balanced radiation pattern when fed with an unbalanced transmission line. A numerical and experimental investigation of the folded dipole performance is reported in this paper. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 29: 155–160, 2001.