Smart radome improves reflector antenna directivity

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Date
1997
Source Title
Proceedings of the Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, IEEE 1997
Print ISSN
0272-4693
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
510 - 513
Language
English
Type
Conference Paper
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Abstract
A numerical optimization procedure is applied to two dimensional model of cylindrical reflector antenna arbitrarily located inside a circular cylindrical dielectric radome. If the radome thickness has been optimized, then varying the radome radius and the reflector position has a small effect on the directivity. However, the feed position should be corrected with respect to the free-space optimum after finding the best thickness. The optimization code is based on solving an integral equation by means of the regularization technique, guaranteeing a desired accuracy.
Keywords
Antenna reflectors
Approximation theory
Boundary conditions
Cylindrical antennas
Directional patterns (antenna)
Green's function
Integral equations
Mathematical models
Optimization
Parabolic antennas
Full wave analysis
Radomes
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http://hdl.handle.net/11693/27716
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https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.1997.630210
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