Electric surface current model for the analysis of microstrip antennas on cylindrical bodies
Abstract
An approach to the analysis of microstrip antennas on cylindrical bodies is presented. The printed radiator is replaced by an assumed surface current distribution, and the fields are solved taking into account the presence of the dielectric layer and the metallic cylinder. Calculation takes place in the Fourier domain. The far field, calculated asymptotically from this solution, is used to get the radiation patterns of the wraparound antenna for any dielectric and the half-wavelength patch for epsilon-r = 1.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Pub Date:
- March 1985
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1985ITAP...33..295A
- Keywords:
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- Antenna Arrays;
- Current Distribution;
- Cylindrical Bodies;
- Microstrip Antennas;
- Printed Circuits;
- Antenna Design;
- Antenna Radiation Patterns;
- Dipole Antennas;
- External Surface Currents;
- Far Fields;
- Mathematical Models;
- Communications and Radar