{"title":"Shaped reflector antenna configurations for generating a rotatable elliptical spot beam","authors":"P. H. Law, D. Kresco, P. Ramanujam","doi":"10.1109/APS.1997.631856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.1997.631856","url":null,"abstract":"Reconfigurable antennas will be an active field of antenna technology in the coming years. A simple beam shape which can be used to illuminate many different regions on the Earth is an arbitrary ellipse, which is the best fit ellipse to a given shape. The parameters which define an arbitrary ellipse are the major and minor axes, the orientation and the location of the ellipse with reference to the coverage area (pointing). Limited reconfigurability can be obtained by fixing the axes of the ellipse, allowing arbitrary orientation and pointing. A steerable elliptic spot beam antenna is previously discussed. This paper describes three different shaped reflector antenna configurations for generating a rotatable elliptical spot beam.","PeriodicalId":283897,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 1997. Digest","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134372668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Broadside radiating dielectric rod antennas with dielectric radiating elements","authors":"J. Mahon","doi":"10.1109/APS.1997.631738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.1997.631738","url":null,"abstract":"A novel antenna which is comprised of collars made of high dielectric material slipped onto a cylindrical dielectric rod is presented. This antenna can be made to radiate broadside (unlike traditional rod antennas which radiate towards endfire). An accurate computer model based on a complex conjugate Galerkin method is also described. Measured and predicted antenna patterns are presented to verify the accuracy of the model and to demonstrate that the antenna under study is simple, feasible and effective.","PeriodicalId":283897,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 1997. Digest","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131540847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of cascaded asymmetric coplanar waveguide step discontinuities","authors":"K. Rahman, C. Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/APS.1997.625515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.1997.625515","url":null,"abstract":"Full-wave analysis of cascaded step discontinuities on a shielded asymmetric multilayer coplanar waveguide (CPW) is reported based on the mode-matching technique. Scattering (S) parameters of various step discontinuities, including single-, double- and triple-steps, are evaluated. Numerical convergence of the S-parameter data is also discussed. Good agreement between the calculated S-parameters of a symmetric CPW step discontinuity using the developed analysis and those published previously is found, which validates the developed analysis.","PeriodicalId":283897,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 1997. Digest","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131632882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spherical-multipole analysis of scattering by finite and semi-infinite elliptic cones","authors":"S. Blume, L. Klinkenbusch","doi":"10.1109/APS.1997.631723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.1997.631723","url":null,"abstract":"The interest in scattering by elliptic cones is mainly motivated by the role which the diffraction coefficients play in asymptotic high frequency theories like the GTD (geometrical theory of diffraction) or the uniform theory of diffraction. Since the elliptic cone possesses a two-parametric tip, the pertinent field must contain the information of a very general tip diffraction coefficient (TDC). This TDC is obtained by analysis of the field scattered by a semi-infinite elliptic cone and is then validated by comparing the exact field scattered by a finite elliptic cone with the corresponding complete GTD-result (including the TDC). By applying the spherical-multipole technique the exact solutions for the scattering of EM waves by a finite as well as by a semi-infinite perfectly conducting elliptic cone are deduced. The vector problems are reduced to scalar problems. Products of spherical Bessel functions and so-called Lame products, the vector spherical-multipole functions can be derived, which form a complete base to construct any EM field outside the sources. The boundary-value problem for the finite elliptic cone is formulated as a standard two-domain problem. In each domain the EM field is described by an appropriate spherical multipole expansion, while the corresponding multipole amplitudes are found by enforcing the boundary- and continuity conditions of the field and by employing the orthogonality relations of the vector spherical-multipole functions. The problem of plane wave scattering by a semi-infinite elliptic cone is solved via the pertinent dyadic Green's function. Suitable sequence transformations are applied which enforce the convergence and yield the limiting value for these series.","PeriodicalId":283897,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 1997. Digest","volume":"134 29","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132802503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High precision differentiation of FEM approximate solutions","authors":"D. Omeragic","doi":"10.1109/APS.1997.631811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.1997.631811","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the high precision differentiation method based on Green's second identity. The technique is compared to several recent methods based on local smoothing and superconvergent patch recovery (SPR). The methodology is extended to 3D problems described by scalar Poisson equation, using the sphere as a base domain for extraction of derivatives. Analytic verification and error sensitivity analysis is performed. The alternative approach employing fundamental solutions to the Dirichlet problem in place of Green's functions is also outlined. The technique is suited to postprocessing of finite element solutions, or may be applied to other numerical approximate solutions.","PeriodicalId":283897,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 1997. Digest","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131013270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extension of the Orchard-Elliott synthesis method to pure real non-symmetrical shaped patterns","authors":"E. Botha, F. Ares","doi":"10.1109/APS.1997.625420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.1997.625420","url":null,"abstract":"The Orchard-Elliott (Orchard et al., 1985) method for the synthesis of linear antenna arrays is extended to enable the synthesis of pure real radiation patterns for non-symmetrical shaped beams. It is shown that an array of N elements, with 2M root off the unit circle, grouped in pairs, will result in a pure real pattern (field synthesis), satisfying the centre-fed constraint.","PeriodicalId":283897,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 1997. Digest","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130937231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Banded-matrix preconditioning for electric-field integral equations","authors":"A. Yaghjian","doi":"10.1109/APS.1997.631610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.1997.631610","url":null,"abstract":"Discusses EM scattering from a two dimensional perfect conductor. The primary purpose of this paper is to determine a convenient preconditioner for electric-field integral equations that will limit the value of the spectral condition number as the patch density increases, thereby reducing the iterative solution time to that given in Woodworth and Yaghjian (1994) for the magnetic field integral equation.","PeriodicalId":283897,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 1997. Digest","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132103575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fast ASAR image formation using the shooting and bouncing ray technique","authors":"C. Ozdemir, R. Bhalla, H. Ling","doi":"10.1109/APS.1997.625542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.1997.625542","url":null,"abstract":"We have recently devised a diagnostic algorithm for imaging antenna-platform interactions from antenna radiation data. The algorithm, termed ASAR (antenna synthetic aperture radar) imaging, utilizes multi-frequency, multi-aspect radiation data and Fourier processing to create a 3D map of the platform showing the locations of dominant secondary radiation on the platform. Such an algorithm can be used to process either measurement data or computed data from electromagnetic solvers. In this paper, we consider the case when the SBR (shooting and bouncing ray) approach is used to simulate the antenna radiation data. It is shown that a fast ASAR imaging algorithm especially tailored for the SBR approach can be derived. By taking advantage of the ray tracing information within the SBR engine, we will show that the ASAR image can be generated directly in the image domain without resorting to any multiple frequency-aspect calculations. Such an idea is similar to the image-domain ISAR formation process we have reported previously (1995). Furthermore, we can apply an FFT-based algorithm to speed up the ASAR image formation time. Using such a fast approach, it is possible to obtain the same quality of ASAR image as frequency-aspect approach at only a fraction of the computation time (minutes versus hours).","PeriodicalId":283897,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 1997. Digest","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132137664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimization of a submillimeter wave hologram CATR","authors":"J. Ala-Laurinaho, T. Hirvonen, A. Raisanen","doi":"10.1109/APS.1997.630105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.1997.630105","url":null,"abstract":"The optimization of a submillimeter wave hologram type of compact antenna test range (CATR) is studied with a combined analysis of an exact near-field aperture integration (physical optics) and a finite difference time domain (FDTD) method at 500 GHz. The effect of altering the feed horn radiation pattern is discussed.","PeriodicalId":283897,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 1997. Digest","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132732492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Planar leaky-wave microstrip antenna","authors":"Choon Sae Lee, V. Nalbandian","doi":"10.1109/APS.1997.631755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.1997.631755","url":null,"abstract":"In a single microstripline, the dominant mode is \"quasi\" TEM, which is a non-radiating surface mode. The higher-order modes, however, become leaky when the propagation constant is less than that of the free-space wave number, k/sub 0/. One of the simplest ways to realize a leaky-wave antenna is to use a regular microstripline properly excited by a coaxial probe. The major problems in this case are input impedance matching and suppression of surface-mode excitations. In the proposed antenna, a double-layer microstrip structure is used to facilitate the impedance variation at the feed. The field distribution at the feed location is altered to match the input impedance by varying the locations and widths of the metallic patches on the two layers. Once the input impedance is matched to a particular leaky mode propagation, the surface modes will be likely to be suppressed because of impedance mismatch to all modes other than the intended leaky mode. Compared with other leaky-wave antennas, the proposed antenna is planar and can be easily implemented in an MMIC environment.","PeriodicalId":283897,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 1997. Digest","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127247959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}