Research Article
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
for the Yagi and the V-shaped antennas.
| Antenna type
| Antenna number
|
Center frequency (GHz) |
−10 dB Bandwidth (MHz) | (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 |
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