Theory and experiment of the hemispherical cavity-backed slotantenna

The hemispherical cavity-backed slot antenna is studied theoretically and experimentally. The exact magnetic field Green's function of the cavity is derived rigorously and expressed in a form convenient for numerical computation. The moment method is used to find the equivalent magnetic current in the slot and, hence, the input impedance of the antenna configuration. The effects of the cavity size, of the slot length, and of the slot offset on the input impedance are studied and very good agreement between theory and experiment is obtained. The variation of the magnetic current around the slot and cavity resonances are discussed. Comparisons between the rigorous solution and the single-mode theory are given and the limitation of the single-mode theory is discussed     

Analysis of hemispherical cavity-backed slot antenna

The input impedance of the hemispherical cavity-backed slot antenna is investigated theoretically and experimentally. The mode-matching method and moment method are used to find the Green's function of the cavity and the equivalent magnetic current of the slot, respectively. The effects of slot length and cavity radius on the input impedance are studied     

Theory and experiment of the cavity-backed slot-excited dielectricresonator antenna

A slot-excited hemispherical dielectric resonator antenna backed by a rectangular cavity is studied theoretically and experimentally. The magnetic-type dyadic Green's function for the rectangular cavity is derived using the mode-matching method. An integral equation for the equivalent magnetic current is obtained by enforcing the boundary condition across the slot. The moment method with the Galerkin's procedure is then used to find the magnetic current in the slot and, hence, the input impedance of the antenna. Measurements were carried out to verify the theory and good agreement is obtained. The effects of the slot inclination angle, of the slot offset, and of the cavity size on the input impedance are discussed     

一种基于缝隙天线阻抗的带缝腔体谐振频率计算方法

电磁波经缝隙进入机箱腔体后,会在某些频率点形成驻波而发生电磁谐振,导致腔体屏蔽效能急剧下降.为快速准确预测谐振频率以指导屏蔽腔体设计,本文基于缝隙天线阻抗理论提出一种带缝腔体谐振频率的计算方法.将电磁场用自由空间和腔体格林函数表示,根据缝隙处的边界条件建立等效磁流源的积分方程.通过矩量法求解积分方程,计算出腔体输入阻抗.根据谐振发生时电抗为零或电阻最小,可从频率-阻抗曲线获得谐振频率.本文方法不仅能预测缝隙谐振和低阶模式腔体谐振,还能预测出高阶谐振.与实验和CST仿真结果对比验证了本文方法的准确性及快速性.最后用本文方法分析了腔体和缝隙尺寸以及缝隙位置对谐振频率的影响.     

Rectangular and zonal slots on a sphere with a backing shell: theory and experiment

A rectangular slot antenna on a spherical cavity with a conducting backing shell is investigated rigorously. The Green's function approach is used to formulate an integral equation for the magnetic slot current, which is solved using the moment method. Two previously developed methods to evaluate the admittance integrals are used and compared with each other. Both methods use recurrence formulas and analytical integration to speed the computation. The slot and cavity resonances of the structure are studied. In particular, two simple formulas for the first two natural resonances of the cavity structure are given. The effects of the shell size, slot length, and cavity dielectric constant on the input impedance are discussed. Measurements were carried out to verify the theory, and very good agreement between theory and experiment is obtained. In addition, the zonal slot antenna on a spherical cavity with a conducting backing shell is studied. The effect of the shell radius on the input impedance is investigated and, again, very good agreement between theory and experiment is found.     

Low Profile Miniaturized Planar Antenna With Omnidirectional Vertically Polarized Radiation

A novel miniaturized cavity-backed composite slot loop antenna (CBCSLA) with low profile and omnidirectional radiation similar to a short dipole is presented. The antenna displays vertical polarization while having less than lambda/100 dimension in height. The geometry of the antenna is inspired from a small magnetic loop which is realized using a slot configuration on metallic ground. Since a small slot loop antenna cannot be impedance matched, a composite geometry is devised that acts like as a small slot loop and can easily be impedance matched using this configuration. The diameter of the CBCSLA can be made as small as lambda/10 or smaller. The feeding mechanism is designed in a manner to create a circumferentially-constant current distribution around the composite loop while effectively matching to a 50 Omega coaxial feed from the antenna center. Additional methods are discussed to further enhance the bandwidth and achieve a dual-band response. The antennas are designed, fabricated, and measured. It is shown that despite their small lateral dimension and extremely small height, the miniaturized cavity-backed slot loop features extremely well input impedance match, uniform radiation pattern, low cross-polarization levels and expected gain.     

An equivalent circuit for the tee-fed slot antenna

In this paper an equivalent circuit is developed for a tee-fed slot antenna, and the equation describing its input impedance is derived. The input impedance for several antennas is computed and compared with experimentally obtained data.     

Slot antenna for hand held mobile telephones showing significantlyreduced interaction with the human body

A new conformal antenna for hand held mobile telephones is proposed. The slot antenna is investigated with a modified method of moments. It enables an accurate modelling of the slot and of any case structure to calculate input impedance as well as electric and magnetic near and far fields taking the influence of the user's head and hand into consideration. The interaction with the human body can significantly be reduced     

UHF bent-slot antenna system for portable equipment—I

A newly developed bent-slot antenna for UHF portable communication equipment is introduced. The bent-slot antenna, modified from a half-wave slot element, is designed to have both vertical and horizontal elements and is intended to achieve the improvement of the receiving performance in the urban area. The antenna system characteristics such as current distribution, radiation pattern, gain, and input impedance are investigated both theoretically and experimentally for such parameters as the slot location, the feed point and the width and height of the equipment box. In the calculation, the equipment box is assumed as a rectangular conducting box, and the surface of the box and the slot are modeled by wire grids. The method of moments is applied to find both the electric and magnetic current distributions on wires.     

The slot-coupled hemispherical dielectric resonator antenna with a parasitic patch: applications to the circularly polarized antenna and wide-band antenna

The aperture-coupled hemispherical dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) with a parasitic patch is studied rigorously. Using the Green's function approach, integral equations for the unknown patch and slot currents are formulated and solved using the method of moments. The theory is utilized to design a circularly polarized (CP) DRA and a wide-band linearly polarized (LP) DRA. In the former, the CP frequency and axial ratio (AR) can easily be controlled by the patch location and patch size, respectively, with the impedance matched by varying the slot length and microstrip stub length. It is important that the AR will not be affected when the input impedance is tuned, and the CP design is therefore greatly facilitated. For the wide-band LP antenna, a maximum bandwidth of 22% can be obtained, which is much wider than the previous bandwidth of 7.5% with no parasitic patches. Finally, the frequency-tuning characteristics of the proposed antenna are discussed. Since the parasitic patch can be applied to any DRAs, the method will find applications in practical DRA designs.     

矩形腔十字裂缝天线的研究

随着卫星移动通信技术的发展,一种能适合机载和地面移动载体卫星通信的天线越来越受到人们的青睐。该种天线要求具有宽频带、圆极化和电扫描跟踪等特性。矩形腔十字裂缝天线就是这种天线理想的辐射单元之一。基于矩量法的分析途径,本文提出了计算矩形腔十字裂缝天线的数值方法,给出天线单元的输入阻抗、增益和轴比等辐射特性的数值结果,并进行了实验实证。理论和实验结果有着很好的一致性。     

Input impedance of aperture coupled hemispherical dielectric resonator antenna

A hemispherical dielectric resonator (DR) antenna fed by a microstripline through an aperture on the ground plane is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The broadside TE/sub 111/ mode input impedance of the antenna configuration is evaluated, and reasonable agreement between theory and experiment is obtained. The effects of the slot length and the slot width on the input impedance are studied and discussed.<>     

Analysis of a cavity-backed annular slot antenna with one pointshorted

Analysis of a cavity-backed annular slot antenna with one point shorted is performed experimentally and theoretically. Resonance frequencies, bandwidths, and radiation patterns are studied with respect to slot width, cavity depth, and slot shorting position. In the theoretical analysis, the method of moments is applied to find the magnet current on the slot, and the Green's function for the field inside the cavity has been newly derived. By selecting a slot shorting position, circular polarization, and a bandwidth of more than 10%, the voltage standing-wave ratio (VSWR) ⩽2 for the input impedance is obtained     

Integral equation analysis of a sheet impedance coated window slotantenna

Presents an integral equation and method of moments analysis of a window slot antenna. The antenna is modeled by a sheet admittance coated rectangular aperture in an infinite ground plane. It is shown that the sheet admittance coated aperture is complementary to a sheet impedance plate, which permits the window slot antenna to be analyzed with existing computer programs. Numerical results are compared with measurements for input impedance and radiation efficiency     

一种计算波导耦合缝隙有源阻抗的方法

 针对耦合波导缝隙馈电时波导内电磁场复杂且不利于工程应用的问题,提出一种耦合波导缝隙有源阻抗计算方法.根据耦合波导端口处S矩阵与端口处输入阻抗矩阵的关系建立关于耦合波导缝隙有源阻抗方程,且采用牛顿法求解此非线性高阶分式方程,得到计及缝隙间互耦的耦合波导缝隙有源阻抗值.通过提取HFSS软件中耦合缝隙馈电的裂缝天线S矩阵进行仿真计算,结果表明该计算耦合缝隙有源阻抗的方法是有效的且适合大型裂缝天线耦合裂缝设计.     

Complex resonance and radiation of hemisphericaldielectric-resonator antenna with a concentric conductor

The probe-fed hemispherical dielectric-resonator antenna (DRA) with a concentric conductor is studied theoretically in this paper. Using the mode-matching method, the exact Green's functions for evaluation of the input impedance and radiation patterns are found, with the functions presented in computationally efficient forms. The moment method is used to determine the probe current and, hence, the input impedance as well as the radiation patterns. The results are verified by special cases available in the literature. In this paper, the effects of the conductor radius, dielectric constant, probe length, and probe displacement on the input impedance are investigated. The theory is very general and, by taking appropriate limits, can be used to study the solid DRA and the conductor-loaded wire antenna. To aid the DRA design engineer, the TE₁₁₁-mode characteristic equation of the DRA is also studied, from which the simple formulas for the resonant frequency and Q-factor are obtained     

背腔式窄缝天线在有耗介质中的特性

本文利用矩量法与并矢格林函数相结合,研究了背腔式窄缝天线在有耗介质中的特性。对于矩阵单元的双重级数,采用泊松求和公式改善了级数的收敛性;对于矩阵单元的二重积分,分别采用积分中值定理及椭圆积分予以简化。本文的数值结果分别给出了有耗介质及天线结构参数对输入阻抗的影响,为天线设计提供了依据。     

A twin slot antenna on a layered substrate coupled to a microstrip feed line

A method is described for calculating the input impedance as seen by the detector for a twin slot antenna structure. This technique is then used to analyze several twin slot antenna configurations, leading to improved performance.     

Theoretical and experimental studies of cavity-backed slot antennaexcited by a narrow strip

Theoretical and experimental studies of a cavity-backed slot antenna excited internally by a suspended narrow strip are undertaken. Coupled integral equations are developed to compute the electric field distribution in the slot and the surface current distribution on the strip. The input impedance of the cavity at the feeding point on the strip has been computed theoretically and measured experimentally. The impedance data, being a function of cavity dimension, slot length, strip length, and frequency, can be polyfitted and used to implement a systematic design procedure to construct a planar array of these slots     

On slot-coupled microstrip antennas and their applications to CPoperation-theory and experiment

A simple theory based on the cavity model is developed to analyze microstrip antennas excited by a slot in the ground plane. By using an equivalent magnetic current source at the feed, the electric field under the patch is obtained in terms of a set of cavity modes. In particular, the loci of the slot feed location for achieving the circular polarization and the input impedance are computed and found to be in excellent agreement with the experimentally measured results. Simple but surprisingly accurate formulas for slot-fed circularly polarized microstrip antennas are derived and compared with those for probe-fed counterparts