The radiation efficiency of a dipole antenna located above an imperfectly conducting ground

The dyadic Green´s function technique is used to develop integral expressions for the radiation efficiency of three types of dipole antennas located above an imperfectly conducting, infinite ground plane. The three antennas treated are: 1) vertical Hertzian dipole, 2) horizontal Hertzian dipole, and 3) a vertical half-wave dipole with sinusoidal current distribution. The results of numerical evaluation of the integral expressions for several values of ground constants are presented in graphical form. The radiation efficiency of a vertical Hertzian dipole is found to exhibit a distinct peak when located at a height of one-eighth wavelength.