WOLDIA UNIVERSITY

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
(COMMUNICATION STREAM)
FINAL YEAR THESIS PROPOSAL ON
ESTIMATION OF PARAMETERS OF NON-UNIFORM LINEAR CONCETRIC
RING ANTENNA ARRAYS TO OBTAIN BROADBAND PERFORMANCE

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 CONTENT

• Introduction
• Motivation
• Statement of the Problem
• Objectives of the Thesis:-
• General Objectives
• Specific Objectives
• Scope of the Thesis
• Methodology
• Methods of Estimation

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 Introduction

• An antenna is an electronic device which converts the electrical signals into radio
waves and radio waves into electrical signals.
• A possible solution to obtaining a high-gain, high bandwidth antenna is by using
the array concept.
• The performance of the array increases with the number of elements in the array.
• Antenna arrays are more prominent in wireless terminals, smart antenna and they
are widely used in applications like radar, sonar and communications.
• Antenna arrays have the advantages of providing high overall gain.

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 Cont.
• Additionally, introducing unequal spacing between the antenna elements can
further increase the performance, by widening the bandwidth of operation.
• Uniform antenna arrays will enable the operation at one particular frequency.
• In our thesis, we focused our efforts on the design of wideband non-uniformly
spaced antenna arrays.
• Compared the gain, beam width and side lobe levels with those of uniform array
antenna over the frequency range of 1-20GHz.

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 Motivation

• The thesis may provide enough improvement at the performance of the antenna
parameter performance.
• Antenna arrays have the advantages of providing high overall gain by using large
number of array elements,
• Capability of steerable beam like in smart antennas, provide diversity gain in
multipath reception,
• Cancel the interference from particular direction and also enable array signal
processing.
• The introducing unequal spacing between the antenna elements can further
increase the performance, by widening the bandwidth of operation.

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 Statement of The Problem

• The performance of single element antenna is limited.

• They cannot meet the gain and radiation pattern requirements.

• It is required to design antennas, which are suitable for long distance

communication, highly directive and wideband in nature.

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 Objectives of the Thesis

General Objectives
• The estimation of the parameters of non-uniform linear and concentric ring antenna arrays to obtain
broadband performance.

Specific Objectives
• To obtaining a high-gain of antenna by using the array concept.

• To estimate the gain, beam width and side lobe levels of linear and concentric ring antenna arrays of
cylindrical dipoles.

• To estimate the frequency range of 1-20 GHz and compare with that of equally spaced antenna arrays.

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 Scope of the Thesis

• The thesis was concentrated the goals on estimating the gain, beam width and side lobe levels of
linear and concentric ring antenna arrays of cylindrical dipoles.
• The total number of elements used in the linear antenna array was 18 and in ring array was 10.
• Gain, beam width and side lobe responses were found to change with the spacing variation
between the antenna elements, and with the choice of the dipole element length.
• By using the several trial sets of element spacing and dipole length values, the gain, side lobe and
beam width.
• Parameters mentioned above were estimated over the frequency range of 1-20 ghz and compared
with that of equally spaced antenna arrays.

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 Methodology Flow Chart

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 Methodology

• Many methodologies or finding from this field mainly generated into journal for others to take
advantages and improve as upcoming studies.

• The method is used to achieve the objective of the project that will accomplish a perfect result.

• Software Used
• MATLAB

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 Methods of Estimation

• The system design in this work is a two-stage process:

• The first part is to obtain the unequally spaced design from a default
uniform array, and
• The second part is to estimate the gain, beam width and side lobe levels for
non-uniform array over the frequency range of 1-20ghz.
• Compared the performance improvement over uniform antenna arrays.

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 THANK YOU

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