ULTRA WIDEBAND ANTENNA INCLUDING RADIO FREQUENCY BALUN

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ULTRA WIDEBAND ANTENNA INCLUDING RADIO FREQUENCY BALUN

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250105529 titled 'ULTRA WIDEBAND ANTENNA INCLUDING RADIO FREQUENCY BALUN

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an ultra wide band (uwb) antenna formed from a single piece of material includes: a planar portion arranged above a ground plane; an aperture through the planar portion; a ground connecting portion formed from cutting of the aperture and configured to electrically connect the uwb antenna to the ground plane; and a tapered portion configured to be electrically connected to a feed, the tapered portion extending around at least 40 percent of a periphery of the planar portion and extending from the planar portion toward the ground plane, where a height of the tapered portion decreases around the periphery of the planar portion moving away from the feed, and where a lower edge of the tapered portion is spaced from the ground plane by a gap.