Title :
Evaluation of antenna radiation Q using FDTD method
Author :
Collardey, S. ; Sharaiha, A. ; Mahdjoubi, K.
Author_Institution :
IETR Inst. d´´Electronique et de Telecommun. de Rennes, Univ. de Rennes, France
fDate :
6/9/2005 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A new and simple method is proposed for determining the radiation Q of an antenna using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The numerical results are compared with analytical formulas and good agreement is reported.
Keywords :
Q-factor; antenna theory; dipole antennas; finite difference time-domain analysis; FDTD method; Q-factor; antenna radiation; electrically small dipole antenna; finite difference time domain; quality factor;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20051146
