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- an overview, summary, tutorial about the basics of the loop antenna, a form of RF antenna
design that can be used in a variety of applications.
Loop antennas, or more correctly, closed loop antennas are widely used in many applications,
often providing advantages over other types of RF antenna design. Loop antennas can be placed
into two categories:
The terms refer to the size of the Rf antenna when compared to a wavelength of the frequency in
use.
There are naturally disadvantages to this type of RF antenna design. The first is that the RF
antenna can have a very low radiation resistance, and this results in very high levels of current
flowing in the RF antenna. In turn this means that even small levels of 'DC' resistance can result
in significant levels of power being lost as heat. It is for this reason that single turn small loop
antennas are made of very thick wire, or more often made of a tubular conductor. Additionally
this means that they must have an effective form of antenna matching if the energy is to be
efficiently transferred to and from the RF antenna.
A further disadvantage of this type of RF antenna design is that it can have a very high Q. Not
only does the RF antenna require tuning to bring it to resonance at the frequency of operation,
but it may have such a narrow bandwidth, on frequencies such as the medium waveband or even
a little higher, that it may be insufficient to accommodate the carrier and its sidebands.