THEORETICAL STUDY OF DIPOLE ARRAY OF N PARALLEL ELEMENTS,
Abstract
The five-term method developed for two arbitrarily located parallel antennas has been successfully extended to a general antenna array of N parallel elements. The method is illustrated with a planar array and a three-dimensional array. Arrays of both full-wave and half-wave elements are discussed. The array is characterized either by specifying driving voltages or by specifying input currents. When the array is of half-wave elements, the conventional EMF method which assumes sinusoidal currents is also carried out in detail for comparison. When the array is of full-wave elements, the EMF method is not applicable; however, equal magnitude sinusoidal currents are assumed and carried out. The difference between these two theoretical results is not always negligible even for the case of half-wave elements or field pattern comparison. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0658030
Entities
People
- R. W. P. King
- V. W. H. Chang
Organizations
- Harvard University