Yagi-Uda antenna
Antena Yagi-Uda
- Date
- 1926 · confidence high
- Place
- Imperial Tōhoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Credited to
- Uda Shintarō and Yagi Hidetsugu
- People
- 👤 Hidetsugu Yagi1886–1976👤 Shintaro Uda1896–1976
- Field
- Communication
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
A directional antenna formed by a dipole, a reflector and several parallel directors. It was used in Second World War radars and in rooftop television antennas.
Uda did most of the experimental work, but the antenna became known in the West through Yagi's English-language publication (1928).
What it led to
- airborne radars of the Second World War
- television and amateur-radio antennas