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An Ultra-wideband Elliptical Bowtie Antenna with Depressed Bias for THz Vacuum Photomixers

  • Jujian Lin
  • , Guoxiang Shu*
  • , Guangxin Lin
  • , Qi Li
  • , Jiawei Tang
  • , Huaxing Pan
  • , Cunjun Ruan
  • , Wenlong He
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Shenzhen University

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel ultra-wideband elliptical bowtie antenna with depressed bias is presented for the THz vacuum photomixer. The proposed antenna obtains a broad frequency bandwidth of 0.2-2 THz with a port reflection |S11| lower than -10 dB and a smoothly varied radiation resistance with an average value of 60Ω. Under the collimation by an extended hemispherical lens, its radiation gain covers a range of 7.0-16.7 dBi within the corresponding bandwidth. Besides, to decrease the electron collision with the isolator and meanwhile lower the energy of the collected electron, a depressed bias structure in the vacuum channel is employed: a ring-shaped gate structure with 20 V positive bias is placed in the middle to accelerate the electron and the other antenna arm connected to the anode is biased with a depressed voltage of 5 V to decelerate the accelerated photoelectrons from the gate. Due to the introduction of such a structure, the electron transmission rate has been increased from 69.8% to 96.3%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 Cross Strait Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference, CSRSWTC 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798350358971
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event2023 Cross Strait Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference, CSRSWTC 2023 - Guilin, China
Duration: 10 Nov 202313 Nov 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2023 Cross Strait Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference, CSRSWTC 2023

Conference

Conference2023 Cross Strait Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference, CSRSWTC 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuilin
Period10/11/2313/11/23

Keywords

  • Bowtie antenna
  • THz vacuum photomixer
  • depressed bias
  • ultra-wideband

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