Novel square spiral antennas for broadband applications

Abstract

An investigation of novel square spiral antennas is presented. The antennas are designed by considering the special arrangements of spiral arms. The new designs perform much better in terms of the frequency independency of the fundamental antenna parameters, when compared with the well known and widely used Archimedean spiral antenna, which makes the antennas very suitable for broadband wireless applications. Experimental results are also presented and there is a good agreement between the measured and numerical data.