Development of a new broadband antenna for EMI

measurement usable in microwave band

Kyo Kobayashi1, Toshiya Ishizaki1, Shinobu Ishigami1, Ken Kawamata1 and Katsushige Harima2
1
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku Gakuin University, Tagajo, Miyagi, Japan
2
EMC Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
Email: shinobu@mail.tohoku-gakuin.ac.jp

I. INTRODUCTION III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

A folded rhombic antenna as a broadband antenna for using
electromagnetic interference (EMI) measurements, transient
field measurements such as electrostatic discharge (ESD) events,
and radiofrequency (RF) immunity tests are now researched and
developed. The original of such type of antenna had been
developed by Prof. Okamura, who was in the University of
Electro-Communications, Japan, in 1956 [1]. In our previous
study [2], complex antenna factors and gains of the folded
rhombic antenna were measured using the 3-antenna method.
However, it was found that there was a depression in response
of gain at frequencies from 1.5 GHz to 1.7 GHz. In addition, the
actual gain of the prototype antenna was not high enough above
2 GHz. Therefore, in this paper, these characteristics of a newly
developed antenna named as folded long-hexagon antenna are
measured.
Fig.2 shows the measured actual-gains of one of the
fabricated three folded long-hexagon antennas and the
conventional folded rhombic antenna. As a result, the actual
gain of the proposed antenna was largely improved. Especially
the largest gain improvement was around 10 dB. However, the
depressions in frequency response of the gain from 1.5 GHz to
1.7 GHz are remained, then this should also be improved.
Table II shows the measurement result of directivity of the
antenna. The maximum value of a front to back ratio (F/B) is
25.2 dB at 4 GHz, and the gain and 3 dB-beam width are 5.12
dBi and 23 degrees, respectively.
10
0
‐10 Folded Rhombic
Gain[dB]

II. METHODOLOGY
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A structure of the folded long-hexagon antenna is shown in
Fig.1. The antenna is made from a long-hexagon metallic-plate, ‐30
Folded Long-Hexagon
and both ends of the plate are folded back roundly and symmetry.
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The both ends are connected to parallel metallic wires, and these
wires pass through the hole that is bored in the centre of the plate. ‐50
Parameters determining the dimensions are D1, D2, w and h as 0 2 4 6 8 10
shown in Table I. The actual gain is obtained from the complex Frequency[GHz]
antenna factors measured by the 3-antenna method in frequency
range from 10 MHz to 10 GHz. Directivities of the antenna were Fig. 2. Measured actual gains of folded long-hexagon antenna.
also measured every 1 GHz.
TABLE II. DIRECTIVITY OF PROPOSED ANTENNA

Frequency 3 dB beam width

F/B in dB Gain in dBi
in GHz in degrees
1 1.9 37.5 -1.23
2 17.8 71.5 5.05
3 7.7 49.0 6.07
4 25.2 23.2 5.12
5 21.9 15.5 6.69
6 18.4 30.0 9.06
Semi‐
ellipse 7 8.7 29.0 7.32
8 5.2 27.5 6.80
9 12.5 32.3 5.14
Fig. 1. Structure of proposed folded long-hexagon antenna 10 12.1 23.0 7.05
(Metallic plate/Top view).

TABLE I. DIMENSIONS OF ANTENNAS REFERENCES

Dimensions D1 D2 w h [1] H. Uchida and Y. Mushiake, VHF-Antenna, Corona
Publishing CO., LTD., Japan, 1961 (In Japanese)
[mm] 170 90 10 100
[2] S. Ishigami, Y. Kato, K. Kawamata, ”Antenna factor
measurement of folded rhombic antenna for using microwave
frequency range,” EMC Europe 2017.