Scattering and Receiving Characteristics of Waveguide Slot Array Antennas

Author

Rengarajan, Sembiam R.

Author_Institution

California State Univ., Northridge

fYear

2007

fDate

17-20 April 2007

Firstpage

532

Lastpage

534

Abstract

Scattering and receiving characteristics of waveguide-fed planar slot arrays are investigated. A plane wave incident source field is assumed. The scattered field consists of the physical optics field and the slot scattering. The former is obtained from the induced currents in the finite ground plane with all the slots shorted out and the latter from the moment method solution of the pertinent coupled integral equations for all slot aperture electric fields. Numerical results are presented.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; electromagnetic wave scattering; integral equations; method of moments; planar antenna arrays; slot antenna arrays; finite ground plane; integral equations; moment method solution; physical optics field; plane wave incident source field; receiving characteristics; scattering characteristics; slot aperture electric fields; slot scattering; waveguide slot array antennas; waveguide-fed planar slot arrays; Antenna arrays; Integral equations; Moment methods; Optical planar waveguides; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Physical optics; Planar waveguides; Receiving antennas; Slot antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0284-0

Electronic_ISBN

1097-5659

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2007.374274

Filename

4250368