Design of cavity-backed slot antennas using the finite-difference time-domain technique

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1853-1858

  Omiya, Manabu ^a   Hikage, Takashi ^a   Ohno, Norio ^a   Horiguchi, Kenich ^a   Itoh, Kiyohiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cavity resonators; Fdtd technique; Slot antennas; Solar power satellite

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001588652     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.743823     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. J. Galejs, Admittance of a rectangular slot which is backed by a rectangular cavity, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. AP-11, pp. 119-126, Mar. 1963.
2. A. Hadidi and M. Hamid, Aperture field and circuit parameters of cavity-backed slot radiator, Proc. Inst. Elect. Eng., vol. 136, pt. H, no. 2, pp. 139-146, Apr. 1989.
3. SPS2000 Task Team for Solar Power Satellite (SPS) Working Group, English Summary of SPS2000 Project Concept-A Strawman SPS System-(Preliminary Edition), Sagamihara, Inst. Space Astronautical Sei., 1993.
4. J. Hirokawa, H. Aral, and N. Goto, Cavity-backed wide slot antenna, Proc. Inst. Elect. Eng., vol. 136, pt. H, no. 1, pp. 29-33, Feb. 1989.
5. H. Shoki and K. Itoh, Analysis of a slot antenna cut on a finite conducting plane (in Japanese), Trans. IEICE, vol. J67-B, no. 12, pp. 1446-1453, Dec. 1984.
6. C.J. Reddy, M. D. Deshpande, C. R. Cockrell, and F. B. Beck, Radiation characteristics of cavity backed aperture antennas in finite ground plane using the hybrid FEM/MoM technique and geometrical theory of diffraction, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 44, pp. 1327-1333, Oct. 1996.
7. K.S. Yee, Numerical solution of initial boundary value problems involving Maxwell's equations in Isotropie media, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. AP-14, pp. 302-307, May 1966.
8. R. Luebbers, L. Chen, T. Uno, and S. Adachi, FDTD calculation of radiation patterns, impedance, and gain for a monopole antenna on a conducting box, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 40, pp. 1577-1583, Dec. 1992.
9. R.L. Higdon, Numerical absorbing boundary conditions for the wave equation, Math. Computat., vol. 49, no. 179, pp. 65-90, July 1987.
10. K.R. Umashankar, A. Taflove, and B. Beker, Calculation and experimental validation of induced currents on coupled wires in an arbitrary shaped cavity, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. AP-35, pp. 1248-1257, Nov. 1987.
11. A. Taflove and M.E. Brodwin, Numerical solution of steady-state electromagnetic scattering problems using the time-dependent Maxwell's equations, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. MTT-23, pp. 623-630, Aug. 1975.
12. W.L. Ko and R. Mittra, A combination of FD-TD and Prony's methods for analyzing microwave integrated circuits, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 39, pp. 2176-2181, Dec. 1991.
13. J. Litva, C. Wu, K.L. Wu, and J. Chen, Some considerations for using the finite difference time domain technique to analyze microwave integrated circuits, IEEE Microwave Guided Wave Lett., vol. 3, pp. 438-440, Dec. 1993.
14. V. Jandhyala, E. Michielssen, and R. Mittra, FDTD signal extrapolation using the forward-backward autoregressive (AR) model, IEEE Microwave Guided Wave Lett., vol. 4, pp. 163-165, June 1994.
15. J. Chen, C. Wu, T.K. Y. Lo, K. L. Wu, and J. Litva, Using linear and nonlinear predictors to improve the computational efficiency of the FD-TD algorithm, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 42, pp. 1992-1997, Oct. 1994.
16. D.F. Elliott, Ed., Handbook of Digital Signal Processing, Engineering Applications. San Diego, CA: Academic, 1987.
17. R. Luebbers, K. Kunz, M. Schneider, and F. Hunsberger, A finitedifference time-domain near zone to far zone transformation, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 34, pp. 429-133, Apr. 1991.
18. T. Kashiwa, S. Tanaka, and I. Fukai, Time domain analysis of Yagi-Uda antennas using the FD-TD method (in Japanese), Trans. IEICE, vol. J76-B-II, no. 11, pp. 872-879, Nov. 1993.