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Impedance Characteristic Analysis of an Axial Slot Antenna on a Sectoral Cylindrical Cavity Excited by a Probe Using Method of Moments

Rangsan WONGSAN, Chuwong PHONGCHAROENPANICH, Monai KRAIRIKSH, Jun-ichi TAKADA

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This paper presents the analysis of the impedance characteristics of a sectoral cylindrical cavity-backed axial slot antenna excited by a probe. The integral equations are derived based on boundary conditions of the proposed structure and they are expressed in terms of dyadic Green functions and unknown current densities. The dyadic Green functions are obtained by using the eigenfunction expansion method together with application of scattering superposition techniques. The unknown current densities are solved by the Method of Moments. The input impedance is subsequently determined from the unknown electric current density at the probe. Numerical results of input impedance and return loss are demonstrated as functions of frequency for various parameters such as cavity length, cavity radius ratio, slot location in φ direction, slot length and probe length. Calculated results are validated by the measurements. At the operating frequency, it is found that the result is sufficiently accurate. The results from this study are very useful for the design of a sectoral cylindrical cavity-backed axial slot array antenna excited by a probe with omnidirectional beam radiation.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E86-A No.6 pp.1364-1373
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2003/06/01
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Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Papers Selected from 2002 International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC 2002))
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