485 results about "Balun" patented technology

The invention discloses a biconical antenna balun equivalent circuit modeling optimization method based on a multi-conductor transmission line, and belongs to the technical field of electromagnetic simulation. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, establishing a three-dimensional electromagnetic model of a biconical antenna balun based on a finite element method, and setting ports and defining boundary conditions in combination with an actual current transmission path; then, distribution parameters among conductors are extracted through a multi-conductor transmission line theory, and a Balun circuit topological structure is constructed; and finally, taking the antenna coefficient as an optimization target, carrying out iterative optimization on equivalent circuit element parameters by adopting a multi-target genetic algorithm, considering a plurality of optimization targets in a broadband range, and finally obtaining a high-precision equivalent circuit model. Through combination of electromagnetic simulation and an intelligent optimization algorithm, high-efficiency extraction of complex Balun structure distribution parameters and adaptive optimization of circuit parameters are realized, and the simulation precision of the biconical antenna is remarkably improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of microelectronics, semiconductors and communication, and discloses a radio frequency switch chip, and the circuit structure of the radio frequency switch chip comprises a transformer type differential inductor T-L1, a transformer type differential inductor T-L2, a capacitor C1, an NMOS transistor M1, an NMOS transistor M2, a gate resistor RG1, and a gate resistor RG2. The radio frequency switch chip provided by the invention adopts a differential structure, so that the parasitic inductance effect of a grounding key and a wire during packaging and testing can be eliminated, and the insertion loss and the isolation performance are improved; compared with a single-end port, the lower impedance of the differential port is more beneficial to improving the power capacity of the switch; the differential structure allows the transformer type differential inductor to use differential signal characteristics, the equivalent quality factor of the inductor is improved, and the circuit performance is improved; the differential structure can improve the linearity of the circuit, especially the second-order intermodulation effect; the differential structure can be compatible with a modern silicon-based CMOS radio frequency system, and an additional balun is not needed for signal conversion.

The utility model discloses a balun-integrated full-wave oscillator radiation unit, and aims to solve the problems that a low-frequency bowl-shaped oscillator and a high-frequency die-cast half-wave oscillator are used in the conventional high-low frequency nesting scheme, so that the requirements of miniaturization and light weight of an antenna are difficult to meet, the processing cost is extremely high, and the cost is low. And meanwhile, the high-frequency oscillator is arranged in the bowl-shaped oscillator, so that the horizontal plane wave width deformation of the high-frequency oscillator is caused, the gain is influenced, and the market demand cannot be met. The Balun-integrated full-wave oscillator radiation unit comprises a fixed support and a PCB radiation plate installed on the fixed support. The structure of the full-wave oscillator is relatively simple, assembly can be completed only by installing the single-balun integrated feed sheet in the fixing support and welding and fixing the single-balun integrated feed sheet and the PCB radiation plate, miniaturization design can be achieved through the microstrip technology, the printed circuit technology and the like due to the fact that single-face embedded coupling is adopted, the requirement of miniaturization equipment is met, machining is easy, and cost is low. The production efficiency can be greatly improved, and the production cost is reduced.

An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having an oscillator. The oscillator can include a first transistor having a source-drain terminal coupled to a tail node, a second transistor having a source-drain terminal coupled to the tail node, a first coil having a first terminal coupled to the tail node and having a second terminal coupled to a power supply line, and a second coil inductively coupled to the first coil. The first and second coils can be part of a balun. The balun can be coupled to a tunable capacitance. The tunable capacitance can include multiple differential switchable capacitor circuits. The balun and the tunable capacitance can form a balun phase noise filter configured to reduce a phase noise associated with the oscillator.

According to the low-insertion-loss broadband balun equivalent circuit for the base station and the balun thereof, the low-insertion-loss broadband balun equivalent circuit is based on the LTCC (Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic) technology, the Marchand structure principle design is adopted, a 1 / 4 wavelength coupling line is realized through a broadside coupled spiral structure, the size of the balun is greatly reduced, meanwhile, two groups of coupling transmission lines adopt a folding mode, the three-dimensional wiring advantage of the LTCC technology is fully utilized, and the size of the balun is greatly reduced. Signal shielding cover is carried out in the middle through GND, crosstalk between two groups of coupling transmission lines is avoided, and the novel base station has the functional characteristics of small insertion loss, good amplitude flatness, high phase consistency, broadband and small size.

The invention provides a millimeter wave digital power amplifier based on a serial transmission line balun synthesis network, and belongs to the technical field of millimeter wave digital power amplifiers. According to the millimeter wave digital power amplifier, firstly, a driving power distribution network based on a bridge and a transformer is adopted, and radio frequency power is subjected to differential conversion and then input into a digital power amplifier unit array; secondly, the digital power amplifier unit adopts a differential Cascode structure with a neutralizing capacitor, so that the gain and the output impedance of the digital power amplifier unit can be effectively improved; finally, a synthesis network based on a series transmission line balun is adopted, the synthesis network can realize active load modulation optimization of the digital power amplifier, the impedance matching condition of the digital power amplifier under the maximum and partial rollback output power levels is improved and balanced, and the overall efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses a double-frequency circularly polarized antenna element, which belongs to the technical field of antennas and comprises a high-frequency-band radiation unit and a low-frequency-band radiation unit. The high-frequency band radiation unit comprises a first dielectric substrate and a first feed probe. A first radiation patch is embedded in one end face of the first dielectric substrate, and the first radiation patch is provided with two symmetrical chamfers. The top end of the first feed probe passes through the first through hole and is fixedly connected with the first radiation patch. The low-frequency-band radiation unit comprises a second dielectric substrate, a second radiation patch and a third dielectric substrate. The second radiation patch is arranged on the second dielectric substrate. The second dielectric substrate is provided with a second metalized through hole. The third dielectric substrate is provided with a Chebyshev Balun feed printed line. The antenna element provided by the invention not only can realize the circular polarization of the antenna, but also can reduce the coupling between antennas of different working frequency bands while expanding the bandwidth of the antenna, improve the isolation between two working frequency band ports, and reduce the cross polarization.

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology is a wireless technology supporting the transmission of large amounts of digital data over short distances using coded impulses over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power. Enhanced link performance and functionality of such UWB systems is presented exploiting multiple directive antennas for spatially filtering undesired signals and increasing signal strength whilst circuit complexity is reduced by eliminating baluns in prior art solutions. Further enhancements support payloads with flexible encoding schemes, improved channel utilization, reduced processing logic, improved robustness in correlation techniques, versatile synchronisation techniques, improved ranging, as well as providing for improved inter-symbol interference tolerance and detection.

The invention discloses a Terahertz broadband high-gain Vivaldi antenna based on a CPW (Coherent Plane Waveguide) rotary slot line structure, and belongs to the field of Terahertz communication. The antenna adopts an integrated single-layer metal structure on the top layer of a dielectric substrate, and is divided into a radiation arm and a CPW rotating slot line balun along the axial direction. The inner side edge of the radiation arm is a smooth exponential change curve, and the middle exponential gradual change groove forms a broadband traveling wave radiation channel. Periodic grid choke grooves are loaded on the outer side edge so as to suppress edge surface waves and improve a directional diagram. The feed part adopts a CPW to slot line balun structure to realize conversion from an unbalanced mode to a balanced mode, and a fan-shaped radial branch knot is utilized to form a broadband virtual short circuit boundary at a feed point to ensure unidirectional efficient transmission of energy. In addition, a group of string-shaped director patches are arranged in the opening area of the exponential gradual change groove along the central axis, and the wave beam is guided through phase correction. The terahertz planar antenna effectively solves the problems of limited bandwidth and insufficient gain of the terahertz planar antenna, and has the characteristics of compact structure, easiness in integration, excellent radiation performance and the like.

The invention relates to the technical field of radio frequency, and discloses a differential phase self-calibration single-power-supply variable gain distributed balun circuit which comprises a differential phase calibration module, an ultra-wideband matching gain adjustment module and a distributed balun amplifier core module connected with the differential phase calibration module and the ultra-wideband matching gain adjustment module. On the basis of a traditional differential-to-single-ended distributed balun circuit, the defect that a traditional distributed balun needs multiple sets of power voltages is overcome by only needing one set of power voltages, and meanwhile, the distributed balun circuit provided by the invention also has a digital gain calibration function, so that the balun has a higher degree of freedom in use. In addition, a differential signal self-calibration circuit is further used, and it is guaranteed that the phase error of balun differential input is minimized.

The invention discloses a wide-beam omnidirectional circularly polarized antenna and a radio communication system comprising the same, and belongs to the technical field of linear communication antennae, the wide-beam omnidirectional circularly polarized antenna comprises a feed connector, a printed board feed balun, a conical hollow substrate, a feed printed board and a radiation printed patch; by adopting the split type conical substrate which is composed of the feed printed board at the top and the conical hollow substrate, connection and conduction of the feed printed board and other structures are facilitated, and the process cost is reduced while the process credibility is enhanced; the feed form of the antenna is set to be printed board balun feed, the microstrip line extending according to a certain curvilinear equation is arranged on the copper layer of the printed board balun, and the printed board feed balun is connected and conducted with the spiral radiation printed patch through the feed printed board, so that the performance requirements of low axial ratio and high gain of the antenna can be ensured, and the antenna can be widely applied to the field of antenna devices. And the technical requirements of wide wave beams can be met.

The invention provides a gain-reconfigurable active phase shifter with a low phase error, and relates to the technical field of phase shifters, and the phase shifter comprises a quadrature coupler which converts a radio frequency input signal into a shunt radio frequency signal; the input matching Balun converts the shunt radio frequency signal into a shunt differential signal; the digital control signal received by the phase inversion variable gain amplifier is used for controlling the on-off state of a differential pair in each differential group, and determining a differential combination current corresponding to a differential pair combination in a conduction state based on a shunt differential signal corresponding to each differential pair; the differential combination current is used for representing a gain state corresponding to the differential pair combination; the input impedance and the output impedance of the phase inversion variable gain amplifier in different gain states are kept unchanged; the vector synthesis module determines a phase shift differential signal based on the differential combined current; the output matching Balun converts the phase shift differential signal into a radio frequency output signal. The antenna has a wide gain adjustable range and a low phase error.

The invention provides a compact common-mode stable transconductance boosting power amplifier, which relates to the technical field of power amplifiers, and comprises an input balun, an offset inductance module, a power amplification module, an output balun and a plurality of power supply modules, the input balun is used for converting an input signal into a pair of differential signals, and a secondary coil of the input balun is provided with a common-mode stability improving module used for improving common-mode stability; the offset inductance module is used for improving transconductance, and the offset inductance module is arranged in the primary coil and the secondary coil of the input balun; the power amplification module is used for amplifying the differential signal; different input nodes of the power amplification module are respectively connected with the offset inductance module and a secondary coil of the balun; the output balun is used for performing power synthesis on the amplified differential signals and outputting the signals through the first end of the secondary coil of the output balun. The power amplifier has the advantages that the compactness, the gain efficiency and the common-mode stability of the power amplifier are considered.

The application relates to the technical field of antennas, in particular to a radiation unit and a base station antenna. The radiation unit comprises a radiator, a feeding structure connected to one side of the radiator, and the feeding structure comprises a balun and a feeding core, a first feeding cavity is formed in the balun, the feeding core is at least partially inserted into the first feeding cavity, and the feeding core is used for feeding an external input feeding signal to the radiator; a first through hole in communication with the first feeding cavity is arranged on the side wall of the balun; a phase-shifting medium is at least partially inserted into the first feeding cavity from the first through hole along a first direction, and the first direction is arranged in parallel with the plane where the radiator is located. The phase-shifting medium is located on one side of the feeding structure, the space dimension under the radiator is fully utilized, the feeding structure and the phase-shifting medium are integrated, the phase of the radiation unit can be adjusted, and the miniaturization of the antenna is realized.

The invention discloses a low-mismatch ultra-wideband active balun, which belongs to the technical field of analog integrated circuits and comprises a first-stage amplifier and a second-stage amplifier which are sequentially arranged. The first-stage amplifier adopts a differential structure, and finally conversion from a single-end signal to a constant-amplitude and anti-phase differential signal is achieved. The second-stage amplifier isolates the influence of a rear-stage load on a front stage, and the symmetry of differential signals is ensured. In the second-stage amplifier, a seventh NMOS transistor and a tenth NMOS transistor form positive feedback; by introducing the cross coupling capacitor, the gate-source voltage difference between the eighth NMOS transistor and the ninth NMOS transistor is increased, voltage recovery is formed, compared with a traditional active balun, the second-stage amplifier reduces phase and amplitude mismatch of an output signal through positive feedback, meanwhile, the bandwidth is expanded, and therefore the bandwidth is increased. And the grid source signal amplitude is increased by utilizing source electrode voltage recovery, the equivalent transconductance is enhanced, and the phase and amplitude of the output signal are further stabilized.

The present invention discloses a dual-polarization omnidirectional rectenna using a radio frequency power combining scheme. The antenna includes an orthogonally arranged horizontal polarization unit and a vertical polarization unit. The horizontal polarization unit includes a horizontal polarization group, which includes a tapered balun. The center point of the tapered balun is a feeding point. The tapered balun has a plurality of fan-shaped radiating branches evenly distributed circumferentially, and each of the radiating branches is connected to the tapered balun via a gradient microstrip line. The vertical polarization unit includes a reflective layer and a vertical polarization group parallel to the reflective layer. The vertical polarization group includes a connected gradient balun and a dipole, and the feeding point is located at the center of the gradient balun. The present invention provides a circumferentially arranged omnidirectional antenna array to receive horizontally polarized electromagnetic waves, and designs a four-dipole array to receive vertically polarized electromagnetic waves. This allows the antenna to operate in multiple polarization states and has good omnidirectional characteristics.

The invention discloses an ultralow-temperature quantum controller applied to a low-temperature superconducting quantum computer, which comprises an analog circuit part and a digital circuit part, and is characterized in that the analog circuit part comprises two XY channels and three Z channels, each XY channel comprises two signal paths and an on-chip balun; each signal path comprises a nonlinear digital-to-analog converter NLDAC, an intermediate-frequency filter, an adjustable gain amplifier VGA, a quadrature mixer and a quadrature local oscillator signal generator, the input end of the quadrature mixer is connected with the output end of the quadrature local oscillator signal generator, and the output ends of the two signal paths of the XY channel generate XY channel control signals of the XY channel through on-chip balun combination. Each of the three Z channels includes three independent, independently adjustable digital-to-analog converters (DACs) for generating Z channel control signals for the three Z channels. The invention aims to shorten the distance between the controller and the quantum chip, improve the fidelity of the quantum computer and reduce the expense of quantum error correction.

A method, phase shifter, and user equipment (UE) for transmitting and receiving signals in a phased array are disclosed. The method includes receiving a transmit single-ended input signal on a single-ended side of a balun of the phase shifter and generating a transmit differential input signal on a differential side of the balun through the balun; generating a transmit in-phase signal and a transmit quadrature signal based on the transmit differential input signal through a differential quadrature coupler of the phase shifter; and combining the transmit in-phase signal and the transmit quadrature signal into a differential phase-shifted output signal through a differential attenuator of the phase shifter.

The invention discloses a small broadband cavity-backed radiator, which belongs to the technical field of electromagnetic fields and microwaves and comprises a reflection cavity, a loading medium, a printed balun, a printed oscillator, a low-density medium support and double leads. The low-density medium support is used for supporting the printed oscillator; the printed balun and the printed oscillator are electrically connected through double leads; the loading medium is used for adjusting the impedance frequency characteristic of the printed oscillator in the reflection cavity; the printed Balun adopts a strip line-flat plate line-parallel double-line structure and is used for realizing unbalanced-balanced transmission mode conversion and impedance conversion of 3: 1 bandwidth; and the printed oscillator is used for radiating electromagnetic energy and is matched with the multi-ring-groove loading medium and the printed Balun to realize impedance-frequency characteristic balance within a 3: 1 bandwidth range. The small broadband back cavity radiator can effectively solve the problems that in the prior art, the caliber of a reflection cavity of a traditional broadband back cavity radiator is large, the loading effect is not ideal when the bandwidth of a directional diagram is 4 GHz or above, and directional diagram distortion occurs.

In an embodiment, a circuit includes a first input terminal configured to be coupled to a first terminal of a first capacitor, a second input terminal configured to be coupled to a second terminal of the first capacitor, a balun including a primary inductor and a secondary inductor, and a second capacitor. The primary inductor includes a first terminal coupled to the first input terminal, a second terminal coupled to the second input terminal, a first inductive portion coupled between the first terminal of the primary inductor and a first intermediate terminal, a second inductive portion coupled between the second terminal of the primary inductor and a second intermediate terminal, and a third inductive portion coupled between the first and second intermediate terminals. The secondary inductor includes a first terminal coupled to a ground terminal. The second capacitor is coupled between the first and second intermediate terminals.

The invention relates to the technical field of microwaves, in particular to a broadband antenna matching system based on a 4: 1 impedance conversion balun, which comprises the 4: 1 impedance conversion balun, an adjustable impedance matching network, a radio frequency monitoring unit and a logic control unit, the logic control unit is configured to receive forward power and reflection power signals and calculate to obtain a standing-wave ratio or a reflection coefficient under a current working frequency point; comparing the standing-wave ratio or the reflection coefficient with a preset threshold value; based on a comparison result, executing an adaptive matching algorithm, and iteratively generating and outputting a new digital control signal to drive a variable reactance element in the adjustable impedance matching network to change the value of the variable reactance element; and through closed-loop feedback control, the impedance of the adjustable impedance matching network is dynamically optimized. By modifying an algorithm parameter or a lookup table in the logic control unit, the same hardware platform can easily adapt to antennas with different impedance characteristics and different frequency bands. And the design flexibility and the product universality are greatly enhanced.

The invention provides an antenna, an antenna array and a base station, and relates to the technical field of antennas. The antenna comprises a metasurface unit, a radiation unit, a feed balun and a reflecting plate, the radiation unit and the reflecting plate are oppositely arranged in a spaced mode in the first direction, the feed balun is located between the radiation unit and the reflecting plate, the metasurface unit is located on the side, away from the reflecting plate, of the radiation unit, and the feed balun is located on the side, away from the reflecting plate, of the radiation unit. A gap is formed between the metasurface unit and the radiation unit; the metasurface unit comprises a first patch, a second patch and an orthogonal wire, the first patch and the second patch are oppositely arranged in the first direction, and the orthogonal wire is located between the first patch and the second patch; a dielectric layer is arranged between the first patch and the orthogonal wire, and a dielectric layer is arranged between the second patch and the orthogonal wire. And the profile size of the antenna is reduced while the antenna performance is improved.

The present invention makes it possible to obtain low noise and low distortion in both of transistors to which a push-pull operation using a balun is applied.　This amplification device comprises: a first field effect transistor in which an input voltage is applied to the gate; a second field effect transistor connected in series to the first field effect transistor; a first inductor connected to the gate of the second field effect transistor; a second inductor connected in series to the source of the first field effect transistor and step-down inductively coupled to the first inductor; and a third inductor connected in series to the source of the second field effect transistor and step-down inductively coupled to the first inductor.

The invention discloses a lumped element and acoustic resonator mixed filtering balun and radio frequency front end system, which comprises a first module, a second module, a third module, a fourth module, a fifth module, a sixth module and a seventh module, and is characterized in that the first module, the third module and the fourth module are acoustic-electric mixed modules and comprise lumped elements and acoustic resonators; the first module, the fifth module, the sixth module and the seventh module are used for forming a plurality of transmission zero points outside a passband of the filtering balun so as to enhance the selectivity and out-of-band rejection of the edge of the passband, and the second module, the fifth module, the sixth module and the seventh module are electric modules, are formed by lumped elements and are used for realizing the passband of the required filtering balun. Reflection loss caused by impedance mismatching when discrete devices are cascaded can be avoided, insertion loss of a system is remarkably reduced, the size and cost of the system are reduced, the broadband advantage of an electrical filter and the high selectivity advantage of an acoustic filter are integrated, and meanwhile the high-performance filtering balun which is miniaturized, large in bandwidth and high in selectivity is achieved.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a radio frequency power amplifier. The radio frequency power amplifier comprises an amplifying circuit, a balun and a resonance circuit. The amplification circuit is configured to receive a first radio frequency signal and amplify the first radio frequency signal into a second radio frequency signal. And the balun is connected with the output end of the amplifying circuit and is configured to receive the second radio frequency signal and output the second radio frequency signal as a single-ended output signal. The balun comprises a primary coil and a secondary coil. The resonance circuit is coupled with the balun and is configured to suppress the harmonic signal of the amplification circuit.

The present invention discloses a bowl-shaped die-cast vibrator, which is applicable to the technical field of wireless communication equipment; it includes a low-frequency dipole component, a disassembly assembly and an adjustment assembly, wherein the low-frequency dipole component is composed of a hinged mounting body and a low-frequency dipole, and the four low-frequency dipole bodies are orthogonally distributed and provided with a feeding balun and a radiation arm. The disassembly assembly realizes rapid locking and separation of adjacent dipole bodies by plugging the positioning column into the positioning hole and clamping the auxiliary mechanism into the locking mechanism; the adjustment assembly utilizes the screw rod in the cross groove of the bearing plate to connect the dipole threaded seat, and the driving assembly drives the screw rod synchronously through the transmission of the ring gear and the gear, so as to realize synchronous adjustment of the dipole angle to change the signal radiation intensity. In addition, the mounting mechanism can dynamically adapt to transmitters of different specifications according to the dipole angle through the elastic bearing tube and the clamping piece. The present invention significantly improves the equipment assembly efficiency, adjustment accuracy and transmitter adaptability, and effectively optimizes the signal radiation quality.

The invention discloses a multi-frequency antenna radiation unit device with a decoupling function, and belongs to the field of mobile communication antennas. The high-frequency radiation unit comprises a balun electrically connected with the reflecting plate and a radiation arm connected to the balun; the low-frequency radiation unit is positioned on the periphery of the high-frequency radiation unit and is arranged on the reflecting plate; the capacitor loading assembly comprises a coupling patch connected with the radiation arm and a capacitor branch connected to the balun, the capacitor branch is located on the side, close to the reflecting plate, of the balun, the coupling patch and the capacitor branch form an additional capacitor connected with the high-frequency radiation unit in parallel, and the total equivalent capacitance of the high-frequency radiation unit is changed through the additional capacitor; therefore, the resonant frequency of the high-frequency radiation unit is shifted out of the low-frequency working frequency band, common-mode resonance generated when the high-frequency radiation unit and the low-frequency radiation unit are adjacently arranged is eliminated, the standing-wave ratio of a low-frequency port is improved, the working bandwidth is widened, distortion of a low-frequency radiation pattern is eliminated, and the coverage quality of a base station is guaranteed.

The invention provides a working mode reconfigurable power division chip circuit structure and a working method thereof. The circuit structure comprises an input port tap, two output port taps, a three-wire coupling spiral coil, a grounding pole and two control switches. One input port tap is connected with a middle coil of the three-wire coupling spiral coil to serve as an incident signal input port; the two output port taps are connected with two ends of an outer side coil of the three-wire coupling spiral coil to serve as output signal output ports; the two ends of the grounding pole are connected between the tail ends of the middle coils of the three-wire coupling spiral coils through the control switches respectively. The two control switches are used for switching the working mode of the working mode reconfigurable power division chip circuit structure. According to the power divider, the connection state of the three-wire coupling spiral coil and the grounding pole is changed by switching the on-off state of the control switch, switching of two working modes of power division and balun is achieved in the same compact circuit structure, and efficient utilization of the chip size is achieved.

The utility model discloses a radio frequency front-end module and electronic equipment. The radio frequency front-end module comprises a substrate, a power amplifier and a balun, the substrate is provided with a grounding metal layer, and the power amplifier comprises a first output end and a second output end. The balun comprises a capacitor, a primary coil and a secondary coil, the primary coil and the secondary coil are coupled, the primary coil and the secondary coil are wound on the substrate, and the primary coil is connected between the first output end and the second output end; one end of the capacitor is connected to the midpoint of the primary coil, and the other end of the capacitor is connected to the grounding metal layer through a plurality of metal via holes. When the capacitor is grounded, the technical scheme that the plurality of metal via holes are connected with the grounding metal layer is adopted, so that even if the radio frequency front-end module is applied to electronic equipment with a relatively poor grounding environment, the plurality of metal via holes can form a backflow path through good grounding of the metal via holes; the condition of harmonic deterioration caused by crosstalk of harmonic signals can be reduced or even avoided, and the transmission quality of radio frequency signals is improved.

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.