Analysis of harmonic radiation from an integrated active antenna

A microstrip patch oscillator is modelled using a dual LCR Van der Pol oscillator. Closed form expressions are obtained for the fundamental and first harmonic voltage amplitudes and results show reasonably good agreement with a commercial circuit simulator. These type of expressions will be useful for computer aided design of active antennas and give circuit designers greater physical insight into their operation     

Correction of near-field antenna measurements made with an arbitrary but known measuring antenna

We describe a technique for rigorously correcting for the effects of an arbitrary but known measuring antenna (or `probe?) in determination of vectorial far-field antenna pattern and power-gain function from near-field measurements.     

Electromagnetic radiation from a slotted-cylinder antenna with an inhomogeneous sheath

This letter deals with a perfectly conducting infinitely long circular cylinder coated with a radially stratified sheath. Radiation of electromagnetic waves from an infinitely long axial slot is considered. A certain profile of permittivity in the sheath is taken, leading to a particularly simple result.     

New method for calculating pulse radiation from an antenna with areflector

A simple method for calculating the pulse radiation of an antenna with a reflector is proposed both in the near and far zones. The method is based on substitution of the radiation field from a parabolic mirror by the radiation field from an exciting V-antenna reflected from the mirror. An experimental investigation of the system radiation field and a comparison with the theoretical results have been performed     

Pulse radiation from an insulated antenna: an analog of Cherenkovradiation from a moving charged particle

Cherenkov radiation arises when a charged particle moves with a constant velocity that is greater than the speed of light in the surrounding medium. This radiation has distinctive characteristics. Near the charge, the electric field is most intense along a conical surface with apex at the charge-the Mach cone. In the far field, the radiation occurs predominantly in one direction-at the Cherenkov angle. An insulated antenna consists of a metallic cylindrical conductor covered by a concentric sheath of dielectric. In use, this antenna is embedded in a medium whose permittivity is often much greater than the permittivity of the insulation. When the antenna is excited by a pulse of voltage, a pulse of charge appears to travel along its length. The apparent velocity of this charge is close to the speed of light in the insulation, which, because of the difference in the permittivities, is greater than the speed of light in the surrounding medium. Thus, the radiation from the pulse excited, insulated antenna should be analogous to Cherenkov radiation from the moving charged particle. In this paper, the pulse-excited, traveling-wave insulated linear antenna is accurately analyzed using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Results are obtained for the charge on the conductor, the near field, and the far field. These results show the striking similarity of the radiation from this antenna to Cherenkov radiation from the moving charge     

Optimization of directivity and signal-to-noise ratio of an arbitrary antenna array

In this paper, a unified formulation is made for the optimization of directivity and signal-to-noise ratio of an arbitrary array, with or without a constraint on the array Q-factor. When there is a constraint, the solution is reduced to that of a polynomial; when there is no constraint, the solution is given in a very simple form. First, it is shown that for a given array geometry there exists a finite permissible range of the Q-factor and this range reduces to zero for large spacings. Second, a detailed comparison between four well-known excitations (uniform, Hansen-Woodyard, optimum cophasal, and optimum) is made and the main results are as follows, 1) The Hansen-Woodyard excitation yields a directivity higher than that of the uniform only when the element spacing is somewhat smaller than a half wavelength (λ/2), but at the price of much higher Q. On the other hand, it is much lower than that of the optimum excitation. 2) For spacing less than λ/2, the optimum excitation is strongly tapered toward the ends of the array and approximately antiphasa (i.e., 0, 180° 0, 180°, ...); whereas for spacing greater than or equal to λ/2, it is nearly uniform and cophasal. 3) For large spacings, the directivity of uniform excitation is nearly optimum. For small spacings, the optimum directivity becomes much higher than all others, but is always associated with an enormously large Q-factor. Therefore in this case a constraint of the Q-factor is important. 4) Hansen-Woodyard and uniform arrays have the interesting property that their sensitivity factors are independent of spacing. The optimization of signal-to-noise ratio is also demonstrated. In particular, the result shows that although an improvement in gain over the uniform excitation is very difficult to realize in practice, a substantial improvement in signal-to-noise ratio is entirely practical. Other numerical results and some extensions of the theory to aperture antennas are also included.     

Maximum possible gain for an arbitrary ideal antenna with specifiedquality factor

Analytical and universally applicable numerical results are obtained for the maximum possible gain achievable by an ideal antenna for which the size and quality factor are specified     

Derivative constrained optimum broad-band antenna arrays

The optimization problem corresponding to the design of a presteered broadband processor with maximally flat second-order spatial response in the look direction is discussed. The constraints corresponding to necessary and sufficient conditions for second-order flatness are presented. The nonlinearly constrained optimization approach is unable to consistently locate the global minimum. An approach to solving this problem that essentially converts the nonconvex optimization problem into a parameterized set of convex problems is presented. In the case of 2-D scenarios, the global optimum is determined by finding the roots of a cubic function. The characteristics of the constraints, including the minimum number required and the dependence on the choice of coordinate systems, are examined     

On optimum MIMO with antenna selection

Wireless communication systems with transmit and receive antenna arrays are studied when antenna selection is used. A case with very limited feedback of information from the receiver to the transmitter is considered, where the only information fed back is the selected subset of transmit antennas to be employed. It is shown that the optimum signaling, for largest ergodic capacity with antenna selection, is generally different from that which is optimum without antenna selection for some range of signal-to-noise ratios.     

The transient response of the coaxial cone antenna

A coaxial cone antenna whose aperture is in the plane of a ground plane has been described theoretically and experimentally in the time domain. Its response to an incident step along the ground plane is essentially a pulse whose width is equal to the diameter of the outer conductor at the aperture. Limitations on the cone dimensions are also discussed.     

电磁脉冲下螺旋天线瞬态响应的仿真研究

由于通信天线经常工作在宽带或者多频带模式,为了对电磁干扰下的通信天线进行保护,对天线时域特性的仿真必不可少.其中一个需要研究的问题就是将天线装载于金属平台上并同时使用脉冲源激励.文中使用一种具有通用性的数值方法--时域电场积分方程,仿真了电磁脉冲照射下螺旋天线的宽带瞬态响应特性.采用拉革尔多项式作为全域时间基函数来展开时间变量,获得求解线天线散射辐射问题的时域电场积分方程,也就是阶数步进递推格式,最后使用数值计算得到了螺旋天线的瞬态响应特性.     

The radiation efficiency of a dipole antenna located above an imperfectly conducting ground

The dyadic Green's function technique is used to develop integral expressions for the radiation efficiency of three types of dipole antennas located above an imperfectly conducting, infinite ground plane. The three antennas treated are: 1) vertical Hertzian dipole, 2) horizontal Hertzian dipole, and 3) a vertical half-wave dipole with sinusoidal current distribution. The results of numerical evaluation of the integral expressions for several values of ground constants are presented in graphical form. The radiation efficiency of a vertical Hertzian dipole is found to exhibit a distinct peak when located at a height of one-eighth wavelength.     

不同辐射源瞬态电磁信号辐射场特性研究

为研究不同辐射源瞬态电磁辐射信号辐射场特性,建立了圆柱形导体传输线模型,基于频域法对电晕放电的远场辐射场进行了理论计算,计算结果表明放电信号的时域波形衰减振荡时间随导体尺寸的增加而增大,辐射场频谱高频分量减少,且随着导体长度的增加,辐射场振荡频率逐渐降低.设计瞬态电磁辐射信号测试实验,验证了理论计算结果.同时,实验采集了摩托车火花塞打火时的时域与频域信息,结果表明火花塞放电时域波形与电晕放电相近,但频谱差别很大,火花放电频谱能达到GHz以上.     

Direction-of-arrival estimation using radiation power pattern with an ESPAR antenna

An approach for estimating direction-of-arrival (DoA) based on power output cross-correlation and antenna pattern diversity is proposed for a reactively steerable antenna. An "estimator condition" is proposed, from which the most appropriate pattern shape is derived. Computer simulations with directive beam patterns obtained from an electronically steerable parasitic array radiator antenna model are conducted to illustrate the theory and to inspect the method performance with respect to the "estimator condition". The simulation results confirm that a good estimation can be expected when suitable directive patterns are chosen. In addition, to verify performance, experiments on estimating DoA are conducted in an anechoic chamber for several angles of arrival and different scenarios of antenna adjustable reactance values. The results show that the proposed method can provide high-precision DoA estimation.     

Tolerances in self-cohering antenna arrays of arbitrary geometry

In a conventional array, the location of each element must be known to an accuracy of aboutlambda/10for phasing and scanning purposes. A larger tolerance on the element location results in the loss of gain and deterioration of the radiation pattern. In a self-cohering phased array, the phasing of the array elements is accomplished closed-loop and adaptively; therefore, no information on the element location is necessary. On the other hand, to scan the adaptively formed beam about the direction of the received wave, which has to be performed open-loop, one requires information on the element locations. In this paper, basic relations pertaining to the open-loop scanning of adaptive antenna arrays of arbitrary geometry are derived for both far-field and near-field scanning problems, and the transition between the two cases and the required accuracy in the knowledge of the same distance are explored. It is shown that the tolerance requirement on the element locations is the conventional tolerance divided by the maximum scan angle. In large systems designed for target imaging, it is shown that the tolerance on element location can be two or more orders of magnitude larger than that in a conventional array.     

Equivalent circuit of dipole antenna of arbitrary length

The purpose of this letter is to derive an equivalent circuit for a dipole of any length and to compare the input impedance versus frequency of the resulting equivalent circuit with published analytical and experimental data     

Ultrawide-band modeling of transient radiation from aperture antennas

A new method for the numerical calculation of transient field radiated through aperture-type antennas (slot, open-ended waveguide, and horn) is described. The finite-difference time-domain method is applied for the near-field prediction in the close surrounding of the antenna and a proper data-fitting procedure of the aperture field, involving interpolating functions with separation of space- and time dependence, permits: 1) to calculate "off-line" the radiated field without the need to store a great amount of data; 2) to avoid, in the case of far field, the numerical evaluation of radiation integral; and 3) to obtain approximate far field formulas which are still separable with regard to space and time. The method enables a full data reusability in calculation of field pattern over a wide angular range at a same time, or of the transient response at fixed observation points.