Optimal impedance matching design for broadband Archimedean spiral antennas

Abstract

This paper presents an optimization problem formulation to design broadband antennas with optimal impedance matching considering that the source impedance is tunable inside a range. Usually an antenna is designed to match a given source impedance, which can be too constraining. The new optimization problem formulation is introduced to answer a less strict query: which impedance is optimal for the behavior inside a frequency range of a given antenna? The formulation is used to investigate Archimedean spiral antennas.