Undersized long backfire antenna

Using an approximate synthesis procedure, a practical undersized backfire antenna (BFA) with a nonuniform corrugated rod structure was developed. Many backfire antenna designs with synthesized corrugated surface-wave rods were manufactured and tested. A comparison between the parameters of two long backfire antennas having the same basic dimensions but differing in the surface-wave (SW) structures (uniform and modulated) is presented. It is found that a BFA with a synthesized nonuniform SW structure has an optimum directivity. An undersized backfire antenna with a nonuniform corrugated rod designed for an optimum frequency of 2.0 GHz is described.<>