Mode analysis of wire antennas
Abstract
The characteristic mode theory is used to analyze wire antennas and scatterers that are widely used in radar and radio navigation. This approach makes it possible to determine the current distributions on the antennas which in turn makes it possible to compute the input impedance and the radiation pattern. The proposed method is applied to half-wave dipoles, circular wire loops, and Yagi-Uda arrays, and good agreement with experimental data is obtained.
- Publication:
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International Conference on Radar
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986rada.conf..577C
- Keywords:
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- Antenna Arrays;
- Radar Antennas;
- Radio Antennas;
- Dipole Antennas;
- Eigenvalues;
- Fourier Series;
- Loop Antennas;
- Method Of Moments;
- Yagi Antennas;
- Communications and Radar