Title :
Determination of the radar cross section of stacked circular microstrip patches
Author :
Boix, R.R. ; Losada, V. ; Medina, F.
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Electron. y Electromagn., Seville Univ., Spain
Abstract :
The authors apply Galerkin´s method in the Hankel transform domain (HTD) is applied to the determination of the radar cross section (RCS) of stacked circular microstrip patches which can be used as either increased bandwidth microstrip antennas or dual-frequency microstrip antennas. The numerical results obtained show that the RCS values of a pair of stacked circular patches may be very different from those obtained for one patch in the absence of the other patch.
Keywords :
Galerkin method; Hankel transforms; electric field integral equations; electromagnetic wave reflection; electromagnetic wave scattering; microstrip antennas; multifrequency antennas; radar cross-sections; EFIE; Galerkin´s method; Hankel transform domain; RCS determination; bandwidth; dual-frequency microstrip antennas; electric field integral equation; plane wave reflection; plane wave scattering; radar cross section; stacked circular microstrip patches; Aerospace materials; Antenna theory; Bandwidth; Conductors; Current density; Dielectric substrates; Microstrip antennas; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Radar scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2000. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6369-8
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2000.873695
