Title :
Analysis of Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array by Using Unconditionally Stable Pseudospectral Time-Domain Method
Author :
Zheng, Hong-Xing ; Ng, Hoi Kuen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tianjin Univ. of Technol. & Educ., Tianjin
fDate :
7/1/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
To simulate the triangular dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs), an unconditionally stable technique called the alternating direction implicit (ADI) is developed for the pseudospectral time-domain (PSTD) algorithm in this letter. This time-domain method is used for solving Maxwell´s equations, which is comparative higher efficiency over the traditional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Also, the multidomain strategy is employed to allow flexible treatment for internal inhomogeneities. Numerical results are demonstrated with the unconditional stability and the second-order accuracy for the ADI-PSTD algorithm. To verify the DRA array design, reasonable agreement is obtained between theory and experiment.
Keywords :
Maxwell equations; dielectric resonator antennas; finite difference time-domain analysis; Maxwell equations; alternating direction implicit; dielectric resonator antenna array; finite difference time-domain analysis; pseudospectral time-domain method; alternating direction implicit pseudospectral time-domain (ADI-PSTD); antenna array; dielectric resonator antenna (DRA); finite-difference time domain (FDTD); time-domain method;
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LAWP.2009.2012731