A Technique for Broadbanding the CPW-Fed Bow-Tie Slot Antenna

In this paper, a technique is presented for broadbanding the bow-tie slot antenna fed by a CPW(coplanar waveguide). The bandwidth performance of existing bow-tie slot designs is greatly enhanced by optimizing the slot shape and properly adjusting the characteristic impedance of the coplanar waveguide feeding the slot. To connect the 50-ohm input coaxial line to the CPW feed line, a linear taper in the CPW is employed. The designed antenna shows a 3.5～10.0 GHz impedance bandwidth, a 3.5～6.0 GHz pattern bandwidth, and a 5.5～7.5 dBi gain over 3.5～6.0 GHz. Above 6.0 GHz, the antenna radiation pattern appreciably deviates from the typical dipolar pattern.