Analysis of parabolic and hyperbolic cylindrical reflector antennas using the method of moments

Author

Elkamchouchi, Y.H. ; Elkamchouchi, Hassan M. ; El-Khamy, Said E.

Author_Institution

Asea Brown Boveri LLC, Alexandria, Egypt

fYear

1998

fDate

24-26 Feb 1998

Abstract

The method of moments (MoM) is used to analyze two proposed types of cylindrical reflector antennas, namely, the parabolic and hyperbolic reflectors. The surface of each of the reflectors is represented by a set of parallel grids, and the feeder element is a half wavelength dipole. The radiation characteristics, input impedance, gain and radiation fields are considered. The effects of changing the frequency on the antenna performance are also considered. The obtained results show that both antennas are very promising for operation in the VHF, UHF and SHF frequency ranges

Keywords

UHF antennas; VHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; electric impedance; method of moments; microwave antennas; reflector antennas; SHF; UHF; VHF; cylindrical reflector antennas; gain; half wavelength dipole feeder; hyperbolic reflector antenna; input impedance; method of moments; parabolic reflector antenna; radiation characteristics; radiation fields; Antenna feeds; Antenna radiation patterns; Dipole antennas; Engine cylinders; Equations; Moment methods; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Reflector antennas; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Science Conference, 1998. NRSC '98. Proceedings of the Fifteenth National

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5121-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRSC.1998.711449

Filename

711449