Abstract
This paper presents a low-profile log-periodic monopole array antenna with end-fire radiation and vertical polarization. It consists of 15 monopole elements and a conductor-backed coplanar strip line as the feeding line. The monopoles are of the same height but loaded with top hats of different sizes to achieve the required resonant frequencies. A wideband transition from coaxial line to conductor-backed coplanar strip line is designed for the antenna feed. A prototype is fabricated and tested. Measured results show that an impedance bandwidth from 1.5 to 6.8 GHz (4.53:1) for $\text{VSWR { and a gain better than 4.5 dBi over the same operating frequency band are obtained while the antenna has a very low profile of only $0.047\;\lambda_L$ ( ${{{\lambda}}_L}$ is the free-space wavelength at the lowest operating frequency).
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