Accession Number:
AD0744837
Title:
Time Domain Impulse Antenna Study
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. 1 Sep 1971-29 Feb 1972
Corporate Author:
VERMONT UNIV BURLINGTON DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1972-05-01
Pagination or Media Count:
186.0
Abstract:
The final report contains the results of an investigation to use the concepts of radiation from accelerating charges to develop the radiation characteristics of pulse-excited antennas in the time domain. The transition to antennas is accomplished through derivation of a radiation equation involving the time-derivative of the antenna currents. For sinusoidal time variation this equation reproduces well-known results for a number of common antennas. For pulse-excited linear antennas, the radiation equation produces a result derived previously by retarded potential and other methods. Numerical comparison with a published frequency-domain analysis of a pulsed dipole shows reasonable agreement except for angles close to the end-fire direction.
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Subject Categories:
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Radiofrequency Wave Propagation