A partitioning approach to large scale electromagnetic problems applied to an array of microstrip coupled slot antennas

Author

Abdulla, M.N. ; Steer, M.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

7-12 June 1998

Firstpage

1783

Abstract

An electromagnetic modeling procedure for electrically large microwave and millimeter-wave systems with circuit-field interactions is presented. The concept of an electromagnetic terminal is introduced to interface separate electromagnetic models of the blocks in a partitioned network.

Keywords

active antenna arrays; antenna theory; electromagnetism; microwave power amplifiers; millimetre wave antenna arrays; millimetre wave power amplifiers; power combiners; slot antenna arrays; EM modeling procedure; circuit-field interactions; electrically large MM-wave systems; electrically large microwave systems; electromagnetic models; electromagnetic terminal; large scale electromagnetic problems; microstrip coupled slot antennas; partitioned network; partitioning approach; Electromagnetic coupling; Electromagnetic modeling; Large-scale systems; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Microstrip components; Millimeter wave technology; Optical amplifiers; Optical scattering; Slot antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1998 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4471-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1998.700820

Filename

700820