Triple RSIW Fed Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for Bandwidth Improvement

In this paper, it is presented a new modified structure of antipodal Vivaldi antenna (AVA). The structure is fed by a triple ridged substrate integrated waveguide (RSIW) on a single layer low-cost FR4 substrate. The ridges insertion allows a bandwidth enhancement due to the cut-off frequency decrease and consequently the miniaturization. The new structure is compared to an AVA fed by a classical SIW designed for a cut-off frequency around 4 GHz. Numerical simulations were performed and a bandwidth enhancement of 660 MHz was achieved with a gain of 2.06-7.59dBi within the frequency range.