Small Antenna Efficiency by the Reverberation Chamber and the Wheeler Cap methods

Author

Azremi, A.A.H. ; Shiraz, H. Ghafouri ; Hall, Peter S.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Northern Malaysia Univ. Coll. of Eng.

Volume

1

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

16

Abstract

Two methods of determining an antenna´s efficiency are compared. Each of these methods was used to measure the efficiency of three different antennas (two monopole antennas with attenuator and surface mount resistor, and modified folded monopole patch antenna). The experimental results from both methods which were obtained are discussed. The purpose of this paper is to show that the antenna efficiency can be measured accurately in reverberation chamber and highly comparable to traditional wheeler cap method

Keywords

antenna testing; microstrip antennas; monopole antennas; reverberation chambers; attenuator; modified folded monopole patch antenna; monopole antennas; reverberation chamber; small antenna efficiency; surface mount resistor; wheeler cap methods; Antenna measurements; Antennas and propagation; Attenuation measurement; Attenuators; Educational institutions; Mobile antennas; Resistors; Reverberation chamber; Testing; Transmitting antennas; antenna efficiency; reverberation chamber; small antenna; wheeler cap;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 2005. Jointly held with the 2005 IEEE 7th Malaysia International Conference on Communication., 2005 13th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

ISSN

1531-2216

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0000-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2005.1635424

Filename

1635424