Title :
Radiation efficiency and directivity of monopole elements with disc ground planes on flat Earth
Author_Institution :
MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA, USA
Abstract :
Plots are presented of the radiation efficiency and directivity of a thin quarter-wave monopole element with a disc ground plane on flat Earth, as a function of the radius of the disc ground plane. Numerical results are from the Richmond method-of-moments program RICHMOND4.
Keywords :
antenna theory; directive antennas; permittivity; RICHMOND4; Richmond method-of-moments program; directivity; disc ground planes; flat Earth; monopole elements; radiation efficiency;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19921468
