Wiener-Hopf type analysis of dielectric-coated dipole antenna in relatively dense medium

The problem of dielectric-coated dipole antennas in a relatively dense medium is solved using the Wiener-Hopf technique. The analysis is done for a perfectly conducting dipole antenna coated by a low-loss dielectric and embedded in a lossy medium of a wavenumber larger than that of the lossy coating. Analytic expression are derived for the input admittance and the current distribution along the dipole which is excited at the center across a nonzero width feed gap. Results are compared with available literature data for different antenna lengths embedded in an ambient medium with a loss tangent of σ/ω∈. The numerical work involves only the determination of certain integrals using standard integration routines