Cantor Fractal Linear Antenna Array with Koch Fractal Elements
IRAQI JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS, COMMUNICATIONS, CONTROL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
2010, Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 85-97
2010, Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 85-97
Abstract
Abstract:Cantor fractal linear array, with ‘101’ generator from second stage of growth, is analyzed here with two types of current amplitude excitation coefficients (Dolph and Fractal). The Koch fractaldipole element with 2nd iteration and θ=60o will be used here as the array elements. Kaiser-Bessel window will be used as the generating function, to calculate the fractal amplitude excitation coefficients. The benefit from using fractal antenna element in the design of fractal antenna array will be clearly deduced from the results. The radiation pattern and impedance were calculated by using software package MATLAB version 7.6 (R2008a) and software package 4NEC2 respectively.
Keywords
Fractal antenna array, Fractal antenna element, fractal amplitude excitation coefficients, 2nd iteration Koch dipole fractal element.Metrics