Breakthroughs In Low-profile Leaky-Wave HPM Antennas

Abstract

This report describes progress during the 7th quarter of this program and summarizes the current status of the research. Technical activities this period emphasized pursuit (still in progress) of recipes/scripts to guide engineers in design of "Rotated Aperture Waveguide Sidewall-Emitting Antennas" (RAWSEAs). This configuration is important to address, because it features the lowest-profile of all the antennas under investigation here. However, SARA's handful of aperture-efficient RAWSEA designs to date have required time-consuming iterative numerical modeling to obtain configurations with predicted performance approaching a FAWSEA of similar aperture area. We are confident this can be improved and are working on "standard" designs and scripts for the RAWSEA, such as those we documented earlier for the (Flat) FAWSEA and (Curved) CAWSEA. Some of the challenges and possible solutions are discussed here.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 18, 2015
Accession Number
ADA619768

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  • Robert A. Koslover

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