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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 48 Number 2, February 2000

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High-Gain Low-Sidelobe Double-Vee Dipoles

Neal Patwari and Ahmad Safaai-Jazi

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Abstract:

This paper introduces a novel variation of the vee dipole antenna consisting of two coplanar vee dipoles with a common feed point. It is referred to as a double-vee dipole. Radiation characteristics of the double-vee dipole antenna are investigated numerically and experimentally. It is shown that the double-vee dipole can provide significantly higher directivity and lower sidelobes and back radiation than the conventional vee dipole. With increasing arm length, the directivity of the double-vee dipole exhibits a series of local maxima. Measured and predicted radiation patterns for a fabricated double-vee dipole are presented and shown to be in good agreement.

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