• DocumentCode
    1889712
  • Title

    Discussion on computational tools for evaluating the exact quality factor Q of small antennas

  • Author

    Collardey, S. ; Sharaiha, A. ; Niamien, C. ; Mahdjoubi, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. d´´Electron. de Telecommun. de Rennes (IETR UMR CNRS 6164), Univ. de Rennes 1, Rennes
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    24-26 Sept. 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    In this paper are presented several approaches to evaluate the exact radiating quality factor of antennas. These approaches are then compared to a numerical procedure using the FDTD method. This numerical method allows studying the Q factor of arbitrary and complex antennas. One of the analytical approaches is based on the derivative of the antenna input impedance. We present at the end, the drawbacks and advantages of the numerical and analytical methods.
  • Keywords
    Q-factor; antenna radiation patterns; finite difference time-domain analysis; FDTD method; antenna input impedance; antenna radiating quality factor; computational tools; Antenna feeds; Antenna theory; Bandwidth; Dipole antennas; Finite difference methods; Impedance; Q factor; Resonance; Resonant frequency; Time domain analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, 2007. ICECom 2007. 19th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dubrovnik
  • Print_ISBN
    978-953-6037-50-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-953-6037-51-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICECOM.2007.4544465
  • Filename
    4544465