was designed for detecting the ultra-high frequency(UHF) signals generated from gas insulated switchgear(GIS) partial discharge(PD).The geometrical parameters of the antenna were optimized through computer simulation.The fractal antenna offers the return loss(S11) less than-10 dB and the bandwidth in the range of 0.5 to 1.5 GHz(relative bandwidth is 100%)
and it has good great directivity and omnidirectional radiation feature.Besides
the antenna achieves a high gain
e.g.
the main lobe gain is about 2
4
dB in the range of 0.5
1
GHz
and it has a compact size of 20
160
1.6 mm.The antenna was tested o
n a discharge simulation platform in laboratory.The results show that the UHF PD monitoring system based on ultra-wideband fractal tree-shape antenna has strong anti-interference ability and can be applied to on-line PD monitoring applications.