A reciprocity approach for calculating radiation patterns of arbitrarily shaped microstrip antennas mounted on circularly cylindrical platforms

Author

Werner, Douglas H. ; Allard, Rene J. ; Martin, Rodney A. ; Mittra, Raj

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

Volume

51

Issue

4

fYear

2003

fDate

4/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

730

Lastpage

738

Abstract

The paper presents a convenient and efficient approach, based on the reciprocity theorem, for calculating the radiation patterns of arbitrarily shaped microstrip antennas with dielectric substrate and superstrate layers mounted on circularly cylindrical platforms. A detailed theoretical development followed by examples with numerical and graphical results illustrate the versatility of the technique. The reciprocity approach presented is very flexible and may be used in conjunction with any of the commonly employed computational electromagnetics modeling approaches such as the method of moments, finite-element methods, and finite-difference time-domain techniques.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; antenna theory; conformal antennas; microstrip antennas; substrates; circularly cylindrical platforms; computational electromagnetics; cylindrically conformal antennas; dielectric substrate; finite-difference time-domain techniques; finite-element methods; method of moments; microstrip antennas; radiation patterns; reciprocity theorem; Antenna radiation patterns; Antenna theory; Computational electromagnetics; Computational modeling; Dielectric substrates; Electromagnetic modeling; Finite difference methods; Finite element methods; Microstrip antennas; Moment methods;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2003.811558

Filename

1208532