A hybrid technique for wire antennas in a cavity

Two numerical techniques for solving the current distribution on wire antennas, namely point matching and reaction matching, have been combined in a particular fashion to yield a new technique termed the "hybrid method." The hybrid method is well suited for a wire antenna mounted in a cavity. Over the antenna, piecewise sinusoidal basis functions with reaction matching are used, and on the support structure, point matching is used with pulse basis functions. The hybrid method has been applied to calculate the input impedance and the radiation efficiency of the three-turn loop antenna in an open circular cavity. Calculated input resistance of the antenna is found to agree quite well with measured data. Effects of varying the extent of recession of the antenna and varying the radius and the material of the antenna wire on the bandwidth, the efficiency, the antiresonance frequencies, and the general input reactance level of the antenna have been examined for a specific antenna geometry. The results are considered to be indicative of the general characteristics of a multiturn loop antenna with nearby support structure. The computer program that has been developed may be applied to a systematic parametric study of this type of antenna in order to optimize it for a particular application.