Design of Short Backfire Antennas for Remote Sensing Applications

摘要

In this paper, we present design, simulation, and measurements for a short backfire antenna that has been developed for remote sensing applications. The antenna is fed with a standard rectangular waveguide and operates in C-band. We performed parametric studies on the antenna geometry and determined an optimal configuration that provides a realized gain of 14.53 dBi and bandwidth of 1.19 GHz. A prototype was fabricated and test results verified the performance.