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The proposed antenna sensor consists of leaf-shaped dipole radiators, matching posts, rectangular slots, and a parasitic loop element. The leaf-shaped dipole radiators are designed with exponential curves to obtain a high directive pattern and are printed on a TLY-5 substrate for high-power durability. The matching posts, rectangular slots, and a parasitic loop element are used to enhance the impedance matching characteristics. The proposed antenna sensor has a measured fractional bandwidth of 66.7% at a center frequency of 4.5 GHz. To confirm the array antenna sensor characteristics, such as its active reflection coefficients (ARCs) and beam steering gains, the proposed single antenna sensor is extended to an 11 \u00d7 1 uniform linear array. The average values of the simulated and measured ARCs from 4.5 to 6 GHz are \u221213.4 dB and \u221214.7 dB. In addition, the measured bore-sight array gains of the co-polarization are 13.4 dBi and 13.7 dBi at 4 GHz and 5 GHz, while those of the cross-polarizations are \u22124.9 dBi and \u22123.4 dBi, respectively. When the beam is steered at a steering angle, \u03b80, of 15\u00b0, the maximum measured array gains of the co-polarization are 12.2 dBi and 10.3 dBi at 4 GHz and 5 GHz, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21206882","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,17]],"date-time":"2021-10-17T23:25:15Z","timestamp":1634513115000},"page":"6882","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Design of a Novel Wideband Leaf-Shaped Printed Dipole Array Antenna Using a Parasitic Loop for High-Power Jamming Applications"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0265-1144","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eunjung","family":"Kang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University, Seoul 04066, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7968-1272","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tae Heung","family":"Lim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University, Seoul 04066, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0035-6667","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Seulgi","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hanwha Systems Co., Ltd., Seongnam City 13524, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8409-6964","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hosung","family":"Choo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University, Seoul 04066, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"125","DOI":"10.26866\/jees.2020.20.2.125","article-title":"Multiple step interlaced beam scan to minimize the deviation of radar detection performance","volume":"20","author":"Yoon","year":"2020","journal-title":"J. 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