A Comparative Performance Analysis of Two Printed Circular Arrays for Power-Based Vehicle Localization Applications

Table 1

Simulated and measured center frequency, −10 dB matching bandwidth, and |𝑆₁₁| for the Yagi and the V-shaped antennas.

Antenna type	Antenna number	Center frequency (GHz)		−10 dB Bandwidth (MHz)		|𝑆11| (dB)
		Sim	Meas	Sim	Meas	Sim	Meas
Yagi	1	2.347	2.41	365	297	−21.4	−35.8
	2	2.397	2.41	369	290	−22.6	−28.7
	3	2.397	2.41	365	310	−22.1	−32
	4	2.397	2.41	362	296	−21.6	−24.2
	5	2.399	2.40	365	334	−21.6	−36.7
	6	2.397	2.41	360	292	−22.5	−26.3
	7	2.393	2.41	358	298	−21.6	−34.5
	8	2.399	2.41	369	310	−22.9	−32.2
V-Shaped	1	2.5	2.51	304	240	−17.3	−25.7
	2	2.5	2.51	300	238	−17.0	−25.3
	3	2.5	2.51	300	240	−17.1	−25.6
	4	2.5	2.50	301	235	−16.9	−26.3
	5	2.5	2.51	300	233	−17.1	−26.2
	6	2.5	2.51	302	240	−17.7	−25.6
	7	2.5	2.50	301	235	−17.2	−25.2
	8	2.5	2.51	301	238	−17.8	−25.8