A Thick Origami Traveling Wave Antenna

摘要

This paper presents a thick origami foldable travelingwave antenna. A typical microstrip rampart-line antennais appropriately modified to enable folding/unfolding capabilityusing a surrogate hinge. This antenna is designed on a 1:5 mmthickFR4 substrate circularly polarized at 3:4 GHz and exhibitsa peak gain of approximately 2:85 dB at broadside.