Smart radome improves reflector antenna directivity

Date
1997
Advisor
Instructor
Source Title
Proceedings of the Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, IEEE 1997
Print ISSN
0272-4693
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IEEE
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Pages
510 - 513
Language
English
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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.

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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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Published Version (Please cite this version)