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Radiation Patterns Synthesis For A Conformal Dipole Antenna Array
Radiation Patterns Synthesis For A Conformal Dipole Antenna Array
= b in
the -direction.
According to Fig. 1, the coordinate vector of the pqth element is
r
pq
= b +
p
+ zz
q
(1)
where
_
_
=
0
M 1
p
=
_
p
M + 1
2
_
, p = 1, 2, 3, . . . , M
z
q
=
_
q
N + 1
2
_
D
z
, q = 1, 2, 3, . . . , N
(2)
and
0
is the angle subtended by the total array.
We formulate the electric eld integral equation (EFIE) by
enforcing the boundary condition that the total tangential electric eld
330 He and Wang
must be zero on the surface of the array can be written as
[E
inc
(, , z) +E
s
(, , z)] = 0 (3)
where E
inc
is the incident eld and E
s
is the eld due to the currents
of the elements.
The boundary conditions are applied in the spatial domain and the
cylindrical Fourier transform of the elds (an inverse Fourier transform
in k
z
and a Fourier series in ) is dened by
f(, , z) =
1
4
2
+
_
+
f(, n, k
z
)e
jn
e
jkzz
dk
z
(4)
where
f(, n, k
z
) is the Fourier transform of f(, , z).
According to [24], the dipoles are assumed to be thin (W L),
so only z-directed currents exist. Thus, there is no current component
in the -direction. Using the proper Greens function of the structure,
the eld produced by the currents of the elements can be written as
E
s
(, z) =
1
4
2
M
p=1
N
q=1
_
+
n=
G(n, k
z
)
I
pq
(n, k
z
)e
jn(p)
e
jkz(zzq)
dk
z
(5)
where
G(n, k
z
) is the dyadic Greens function in the spectral domain
for the electric eld and
I
pq
(n, k
z
) is the Fourier transform of the pqth
element currents. The dyadic Greens function
G(n, k
z
) in equation
(5) is given explicitly by [25] as
G(n, k
z
) =
jZ
0
k
0
_
k
2
0
k
2
z
_
T
1
T
1
T
2
T
2
3
(6)
where
T
1
=
_
k
2
0
k
2
z
H
(2)
n
_
_
k
2
0
k
2
z
b
_
H
(2)
n
_
_
k
2
0
k
2
z
b
_
k
2
0
k
2
z
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
C
1
(7a)
T
2
=
_
k
2
0
k
2
z
H
(2)
n
_
_
k
2
0
k
2
z
b
_
H
(2)
n
_
_
k
2
0
k
2
z
b
_
r
_
k
2
0
k
2
z
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
C
2
(7b)
T
3
=
k
0
(
r
1)
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
nk
z
b
(7c)
Progress In Electromagnetics Research, PIER 76, 2007 331
and
C
1
=
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
_
_
_
_
J
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
a
_
N
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
b
_
J
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
b
_
N
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
a
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
J
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
a
_
N
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
b
_
J
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
b
_
N
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
a
_
_
_
_
_
(8a)
C
2
=
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
_
_
_
_
J
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
a
_
N
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
b
_
J
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
b
_
N
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
a
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
J
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
a
_
N
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
b
_
J
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
b
_
N
n
_
_
r
k
2
0
k
2
z
a
_
_
_
_
_
(8b)
where k
0
is the free-space wave number, Z
0
is the free space intrinsic
impedance, and (
, z
) =
N
D
1
i=1
I
pqi
S
pqi
(z
) (9)
where I
pqi
is the unknown coecient that determines the total current
at the feed point on the pqth element, S
pqi
(
, z
) is the piecewise
sinusoidal (PWS) basis function, dened as
S
pqi
(
, z
) = z
_
_
sink
e
(L |z
z
i
|)
sin(k
e
L)
, z
i1
z
z
i+1
0, otherwise
(10)
where k
e
is the wave number of the expansion mode, chosen here as
k
e
= k
0
_
(
r
+ 1)/2 (11)
Galerkins method is used to form a MoM solution wherein the integral
equation is discretized into a system of linear equations to be solved
for the unknown coecients I
pqi
. Testing this equation by the same
332 He and Wang
set of basis functions (testing functions), denoted by W
stj
(, z) (j =
1, 2, 3, . . . , N
D
), the following matrix equation is obtained as
[Z]I = V (12)
where
Z
pq,st
=
1
(2)
2
M
p=1
N
q=1
+
n=
_
+
W
st
(n,k
z
)
G(n, k
z
)
I
pq
(n, k
z
)dk
z
(13)
I = [I
pq1
, I
pq2
, I
pq3
, . . . , I
pqN
D
]
T
(14)
V
stj
=
__
S
stj
dsW
stj
(, , z) n E
inc
(, , z) (15)
The most crucial problem is how to solve the integral in equation (13).
According to [26], the integration alone the k
z
axis is deformed as
shown in Fig. 2 to avoid the poles of the integrand between k
z
= k
0
and k
z
=
r
k
0
. The integration contour can be chosen more or
less arbitrarily, but it is not advisable to get too far from the real
axis to avoid numerical problems. In this paper, we have chosen a
distance of 0.1k
0
from the real axis. Simultaneously, the expressions
for the electromagnetic eld, in the spectral domain, due to a current
on a cylinder, contain Bessel and Hankel functions. To improve the
numerical eciency we tabulate their values for the arguments needed,
i.e., for each k
z
we make a table of the values of the Bessel and Hankel
functions for all order and arguments. For large order Bessel and
Hankel functions we use Debyes asymptotic formulas to deal with the
integral. The Debyes asymptotic formulas can be obtained as follows
[27]
Figure 2. Deformation of the integration path in a complex
integration contour.
Progress In Electromagnetics Research, PIER 76, 2007 333
J
n
(x)
=
e
n[
n
x
tanh(
n
x
)]
2ntanh
_
n
x
_
_
_
1+
3 coth
_
n
x
_
5
_
coth
_
n
x
__
3
24n
_
_
(16a)
H
(2)
n
(x)
= j
e
n[
n
x
tanh(
n
x
)]
0.5ntanh
_
n
x
_
_
_
1
3 coth
_
n
x
_
5
_
coth
_
n
x
__
3
24n
_
_
(16b)
In (16), the condition for order n of Bessel and Hankel functions
is |n x| |x|
1/3
for all used arguments x during the integration
procedure [27].
Next, the radiation eld of the pqth element can be calculated in
the following way [28]
E
zpq
(n, k
z
, ) =
E
zpq
(n, k
z
, b)
H
(2)
n
(k
)
H
(2)
n
(k
b)
=
_
_
+
n=
G(b, , z)I
pq
(b, , z)e
jn(p)
e
jkz(zzq)
dk
z
_
H
(2)
n
(k
)
H
(2)
n
(k
b)
(17)
where the is the far eld radius and H
(2)
n
is the Hankel function of
second kind that describes an outward traveling in the far eld. In
order to obtain the E
z
eld component in the spatial domain, we need
to evaluate the k
z
integral in (4). This is made in approximate way
using the stationary phase method [29] (notice that the phase is fastly
changing due the term H
(2)
n
(k
)e
jkzz
). The resulting expression for
E
z
eld component in far eld is
E
z
(, , ) =
M
p=1
N
q=1
E
zpq
(, , )
=
j
p=1
N
q=1
+
n=
j
n
e
jn
E
z
(n, k
0
, cos , b)
H
(2)
n
(k
0
sinb)
e
jkr
r
(18)
In order to validate the accuracy of the far eld expressions by using
our method, we calculate the cylindrical array of thin printed dipoles
in literature [3]. The comparing results are shown in Fig. 3 and a good
agreement is obtained.
334 He and Wang
In literature [3] for cylindrical array
F
a
r
F
i
e
l
d
M
a
g
n
i
t
u
d
e
(
)
d
B
Our using methodfor cylindrical array
0
Azimuth Angle ( )
Figure 3. The result comparison based on literature [3] and our using
method.
3. RADIATION PATTERNS SYNTHESIS
In this paper, a 10 12 printed dipole array, with an outer radius
of circular cylinder b = 9
0
, dielectric thickness h = 0.25
0
, and
relative permittivity
r
= 2.1, is designed, where
0
is the free space
wavelength corresponding to an operating frequency of 10 GHz. The
dipoles (2L = 0.5
0
, W = 0.003
0
) are mounted on the surface of
the circular cylinder within the range of |
0
| 60