• DocumentCode
    3304315
  • Title

    Could the antenna pattern be in energy instead of in power?

  • Author

    Chang, Dau-Chyrh ; Liao, Chao-Hsiang ; Hsu, Powen

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Inst. of Commun. Eng.
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    2-4 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    In general, the limited antenna power patterns in frequency domain are used to describe the antenna performance. It is enough to describe the antenna performance in narrow band communication systems. However, the limited antenna power patterns in frequency domain are not enough for ultra wideband (UWB) antennas or arrays in communication systems. The energy pattern of antenna is the total response of power patterns in frequency domain. It will be easier to describe the energy pattern instead of power pattern for UWB antennas. In this paper, electromagnetic energy, electromagnetic power, energy pattern, energy gain, energy directivity and energy efficiency will be discussed. In order to verify the theory of antenna pattern in energy, Yagi Uda antenna, narrow band multibeam smart antenna, UWB bow-tie slot antenna, UWB comb taper slot antenna, and UWB antenna arrays with different element spacing are studied and measured by the impulse time domain system. The energy pattern is quite similar to that of power pattern for narrow band antennas. The grating lobes of UWB antenna array will not occur at the energy pattern even if the element spacing of array is larger than one wavelength.
  • Keywords
    Yagi antenna arrays; adaptive antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; bow-tie antennas; frequency-domain analysis; multibeam antennas; slot antenna arrays; time-domain analysis; ultra wideband antennas; UWB antenna arrays; UWB bow-tie slot antenna; UWB comb taper slot antenna; Yagi Uda antenna; antenna performance; electromagnetic energy; electromagnetic power; energy directivity; energy efficiency; energy gain; energy pattern; frequency domain; impulse time domain system; limited antenna power patterns; narrow band communication systems; narrow band multibeam smart antenna; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband arrays; Antenna arrays; Antenna theory; Communication systems; Energy efficiency; Frequency domain analysis; Narrowband; Slot antennas; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology; Yagi-Uda antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antenna Technology, 2009. iWAT 2009. IEEE International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Santa Monica, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4395-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4396-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IWAT.2009.4906981
  • Filename
    4906981