Hemisphere lens-loaded Vivaldi antenna for time domain microwave imaging of concealed objects

Zubair Akhter, Abhijith B. N. and M. J. Akhtar

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, 2016, vol. 30, issue 9, 1183-1197

Abstract: The hemisphere lens-loaded Vivaldi antenna for the microwave imaging applications is designed and tested in this paper. The proposed antenna is designed to work in the wide frequency band of 1–14 GHz, and is fabricated on the FR-4 substrate. The directivity of the proposed Vivaldi antenna is enhanced using a hemispherical shape dielectric lens, which is fixed on the end-fire direction of the antenna. The proposed antenna is well suited for the microwave imaging applications because of the wide frequency range and high directivity. The design of the antenna is carried out using the CST microwave studio, and various parameters such as the return loss, the radiation pattern, the directivity, and input impedance are optimized. The maximum improvement of 4.19 dB in the directivity is observed with the designed hemisphere lens. The antenna design is validated by fabricating and testing it in an anechoic environment. Finally, the designed antenna is utilized to establish a setup for measuring the scattering coefficients of various objects and structures in the frequency band of 1–14 GHz. The two-dimensional (2D) microwave images of these objects are successfully obtained in terms of the measured wide band scattering data using a novel time domain inverse scattering approach, which shows the applicability of the proposed antenna.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09205071.2016.1186574

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