并联介质加载偶极天线脉冲辐射特性的研究

应用FDTD方法和PML技术，对馈电区一侧放置介质块的电阻加载偶极天线的时域辐射特性进行了研究，发现这种天线具有良好的方向性.分析了加载介质块的尺寸和介电常数对脉冲辐射特性的影响，给出了能够产生良好方向性而且辐射效率又不至于很低的天线结构参数.并联介质加载脉冲天线的低轮廓特点使其容易与电路集成，非常适用于UWB这样的超宽带无线通信系统. 关键词： 脉冲天线 辐射特性 介质加载 时域有限差分方法     

介质加载天线阵的瞬态辐射特性

 提高天线增益和辐射效率是瞬态天线研究的重要内容之一。通过设定高斯脉冲激励波形,导出了瞬态辐射的能量阵列因子,分析了1维对称均匀天线阵列的瞬态辐射特性。结果表明:阵列的辐射波形与观察时间区间和角度有关,瞬态与稳态特性差异明显,时域辐射方向图与脉冲宽度有关,阵列可实现时域波束扫描。设计了介质加载天线阵,并采用3维电磁场分析软件进行了时域仿真计算,分析了介质加载对天线辐射特性的影响。研究表明:有介质加载的天线前向辐射电场峰值比没有介质加载的天线增加逾1倍,即瞬态辐射功率增大了3倍多,通过对计算和仿真结果的分析比较,验证了分析和设计方法的正确性和有效性。     

脉冲电磁波通过偶极天线辐射的物理过程及其数值模拟

在讨论了基于时域有限差分法和完全匹配层技术的数值模拟方法之后,首先从运动电荷和电力线的角度直观地描述了脉冲电磁波的辐射过程,然后进一步从场与电荷相互作用的角度分析了天线上电荷是如何被加速以及如何维持其运动状态的,指出了开放空间中突然出现的时变电场（位移电流）是脉冲电磁波辐射的根本原因．文中还对局部电阻加载的天线和局部弯曲的天线进行了研究,以进一步说明上述观点．对多种情况下的脉冲辐射过程进行了数值模拟,并给出了电场的等高线和空间波形图,这些图形对理解脉冲电磁波的辐射机理非常有益． 关键词：     

基于TEM喇叭的辐射波模拟器天线的近场特性

 给出一种新型核电磁脉冲辐射波模拟器天线，并用时域有限差分方法分析和优化天线的结构。天线的激励源是由同轴线馈入的强电压脉冲。优化了平行板传输线和TEM喇叭的尺寸，并对天线的近场进行分析，给出了天线尺寸对近场特性的影响。数值模拟结果表明，在距离天线口径100m处的电场强度可达20kV/m。     

微带阵列天线的时域散射特性

本文用时域有限差分方法(FDTD)研究了微带阵列天线的时域散射场,分析了入射脉冲极化方向不同以及入射方向不同时的散射场的分布情况;讨论了时域散射场的时域波形以及频谱与微带阵列天线结构的关系;用散射场分离算法讨论了地板对于微带贴片阵列散射场的影响.研究发现,有限大地板的微带阵列天线的散射场主要是由地板的边沿电流产生的,同时微带贴片阵列的谐振频率与入射脉冲的极化方向有关,因此不同的极化方向对应于不同的散射频谱. 关键词： 时域散射 微带天线 FDTD     

TEM喇叭天线辐射机理分析和优化设计

在频域和时域研究了TEM喇叭天线的辐射机理。在频域,高频信号激励的TEM喇叭表现为口径天线的辐射特性,具有良好的方向性;低频信号激励的TEM喇叭可视作偶极子天线,具有全向辐射特性;在时域,脉冲激励的TEM喇叭天线辐射场由四个子波叠加构成,在不同方向上,各个子波的波形和相对时序不同,导致不同方向上辐射场波形也不相同。根据辐射机理研究结果,提出了一种TEM喇叭天线末端加载设计并给出了其优化设计方法,有效地改善了天线主轴辐射性能,提高了辐射因子和天线效率。     

大型双反射面天线近轴区辐射FDTD-TDPO模拟

针对大型双反射面天线尺寸过大、使用单一的时域方法无法单独模拟其远区辐射特性,以及使用单一的高频近似技术无法给出准确结果的局限,给出了用于大型双反射面天线时域辐射模拟的并行时域有限差分(PFDTD)-并行时域物理光学(PTDPO)混合方法。先创建两个用于并行计算的进程组,一个用于PFDTD计算,另一个用于PTDPO计算; 再根据PFDTD方法计算出双反射面天线馈源的近磁场,同时根据这些磁场使用基尔霍夫表面积分表达式(KSIR)并行计算出次反射面上及其附近的磁场,再使用KSIR并行计算出主反射面上的磁场; 最后使用PTDPO方法计算出双反射面天线的远区辐射场的瞬态响应。同时,还给出主反射面口径为40个波长的Cassegrain双反射面天线的算例,并对馈源相同而口径尺寸不同的双反射面天线进行近轴区的时域辐射模拟。     

冲击脉冲辐射天线辐射场计算及应用

根据由张量法得到的任意线天线电场计算公式,利用镜像法推导,得到冲击脉冲辐射天线辐射电场的时域解析表达式。应用该表达式计算冲击脉冲辐射天线应用于辐射波电磁脉冲模拟器的时域辐射场,并与数值计算进行比较,结果表明:解析计算得到的辐射场波形与数值计算结果吻合较好,因此,利用解析表达式可以方便地观察天线结构参数对天线辐射场波形的影响,从而选取合适的参数以产生符合标准要求的天线场波形。     

超宽带天线辐射中心的时域测量方法

 采用时域方法测量超宽带天线的辐射中心时,找出一个参考点,使天线以此点为中心的辐射波在辐射主轴某一范围内的波形时延最小,该参考点即为天线的辐射中心。该方法无需考虑馈入脉冲的频率,仅需观察天线辐射场各方向的波形时延。用时域测量方法测量了超宽带TEM喇叭天线的辐射中心,并用TEM喇叭做为馈源的抛物反射面天线进行了验证,结果证明了该方法的可行性与准确性。     

TEM喇叭天线脉冲辐射特性

采用时域有限积分法（FIT）对相同几何口径尺寸下不同长度TEM喇叭天线的主轴辐射特性进行了研究,分析了有限长TEM喇叭天线与理想（无限长）TEM喇叭天线主轴辐射场存在差异的原因,导出了有限长TEM喇叭天线主轴辐射场在接近理想TEM喇叭天线辐射场条件下天线长度与激励脉冲宽度（或脉冲上升时间）之间的关系。在此基础上,根据文献中的研究结果,并结合激励脉冲波形,给出了TEM喇叭天线几何参数的优化设计方法。     

光电导天线辐射阻抗特性模拟分析(英文)

针对连续太赫兹光电导天线辐射功率较低的缺点,利用有限积分方法对三种常用的光电导天线,包括偶极天线、蝶形天线和螺旋天线,进行数值模拟并分析比较其辐射阻抗特性.仿真结果表明,偶极天线的辐射阻抗与偶极长度、宽度、电极间隙以及传输线宽度有关,且在其谐振频率存在峰值阻抗,适用于特定频率的太赫兹波辐射.蝶形天线和螺旋天线在所研究的太赫兹波段具有近似稳定的辐射阻抗,广泛应用于宽带领域.对带有交叉电极的电极间隙进行计算,结果表明由交叉电极引入的附加电容降低了天线的高频阻抗.     

电磁带隙结构在天线雷达散射截面减缩中的应用

 提出了一种使用电磁带隙结构来减小微带印刷对称阵子天线雷达散射截面的方法。该方法利用电磁带隙结构的带阻特性,使其能作为天线的地板,在带外(非谐振)时,电磁带隙结构对入射电磁波起滤波作用。仿真和实验的结果表明,电磁带隙结构能保证天线在带内辐射不受影响的同时,还大幅度地降低了天线带外的雷达散射截面。     

Wideband dipole antenna with inter-digital capacitor

A dipole antenna with wideband characteristics is presented. The proposed antenna consists of a dipole with periodic capacitive loading and a pair of coplanar striplines (CPSs) as an impedance transformer. By adding interlaced coupling lines at each section, periodic capacitive loading is realized. The periodic interlaced coupling lines divide each arm of the dipole into five sections, and currents are distributed on different sections at different frequencies, which is useful to achieve a wide impedance bandwidth. By parametric study using HFSS, the optimized parameters of this dipole antenna are obtained. In order to validate the simulation results, a prototype of the proposed dipole antenna is fabricated and tested. The results show that the proposed antenna can achieve a gain of 3.1 dB-5.1 dB and bandwidth of 51% for |S 11 | < 10 dB over the band of 3.9 GHz-6.6 GHz, indicating its good radiation performance and radiation efficiency.     

A traveling-wave stripline dipole antenna on a substrate lens at terahertz frequency

In this paper, a study of a stripline dipole antenna on a substrate lens used as a photoconductive detector in a terahertz system is presented. The traveling-wave behavior of the stripline dipole and the influence of the substrate lens are investigated over a broad frequency range up to 5.0 THz. The numerical results show that the lens shape represented by the ratio of the extension length to the lens radius plays an important role in maximizing the antenna gain and radiation spectral bandwidth. The gain response exhibited an increased level of sensitivity to the lens shape as the lens size increased, and this is particularly important in optimizing large substrate lenses. Improvements in the gain level over the entire frequency range of interest were observed as the lens diameter increased. This study provides helpful guidelines in choosing and optimizing a substrate lens designed for a terahertz photoconductive antenna, which is particularly useful for specific applications requiring a miniaturized photoconductive antenna design.     

Integration of microbolometers with infrared microstrip antennas

We report on various integration schemes of infrared microbolometers with microstrip antennas. The first integration design consists of two gold (Au) rectangular microstrip patches coupled along the radiating edges by a narrow niobium (Nb) strip. Devices using silicon oxide are compared to devices using amorphous silicon as antenna substrate. An extension of the twin-patch detector design is the microstrip dipole antenna-coupled microbolometer. Two ways of connecting the device to the contact pads via narrow dc leads are presented and compared. The contribution of the dc leads to the detector response is eliminated by directly connecting the dipole to the contact pads. The thermal isolation of the microbolometer from the silicon wafer is improved by incorporating air into the antenna dielectric substrate. This leads to higher detector responsivity and shifts the resonance towards longer antennas. The implementation of a bridge microstrip dipole antenna structure is also discussed.     

Analytical framework of small-gap photoconductive dipole antenna using equivalent circuit model

A compact planar antenna sources with on-chip fabrication and high directivity in order to achieve large depth-of-field for better image resolution is the prospective demand for THz imaging application. Therefore, the small-gap photoconductive dipole antennas have been explored to fulfil such applications demand. However, there are certain modalities for improving the photoconductive dipole antenna performance which need to identify to accomplish high THz average radiated power and improved total efficiency. The unit-cell small-gap photoconductive dipole antenna radiation power enhancement methods need to optimize the design parameters with photoconductive material selection from theoretical simulation. Further, the potential improvement of coupling efficiency of THz wave with air as well as femto-second laser incident efficiency is also important parameters to enhance the radiation power of small-gap photoconductive dipole antenna. In this paper, we have presented an analytical procedure employing explicit mathematical expression leading to the physical behaviour of small-gap photoconductive dipole antenna. The effects of biased lines on the antenna performance parameters are discussed with the help of proposed equivalent circuit model. We have explored the effect of gap-size on the THz radiated power and on total radiation efficiency from the proposed photoconductive dipole antennas.     

光偶极天线的远场方向性研究

用时域有限差分方法模拟了两种光偶极天线模型的场分布,研究了光偶极天线的远场辐射特性随其长度增加而变化的规律以及影响其远场方向性的因素,发现光偶极天线的远场方向性随其长度增加而变化的规律类似于经典对称振子天线的相应规律.但高阶局域表面等离激元模式的存在使得光偶极天线的远场辐射图更快地出现了旁瓣.这些发现对于提高光天线的性能具有重要意义. 关键词： 光偶极天线 局域表面等离激元 金纳米粒子 远场方向性     

Integrated nanostrip dipole antennas for coherent 30 THz infrared radiation

We report on the experimental study of infrared nanostrip dipole antennas which are connected to thin-film nanometer Ni-NiO-Ni diodes. The integrated Ni-NiO-Ni diodes are used to detect 30 THz (10 µm) CO₂-laser radiation.The diodes are deposited on 385 µm silicon substrates which are covered with a layer of 1.6 µm SiO₂ on both sides. We have found that in low-power applications 1.6 µm of SiO₂ yields excellent quarter-wave matching layers for wavelengths centered at ₀ = 10.8 µm. By this method 79% of the incident CO₂-laser radiation is transmitted into the Si substrate compared to 48% without SiO₂ layer. The use of SiO₂ quarter-wave matching layers considerably improves the efficiency of infrared nanostrip dipole antennas. This has been confirmed by the study of the laser-induced response of the Ni-NiO-Ni diode detectors as a function of the lengthL of the dipole antenna. Thus, we have observed that the laser-induced response strongly increases for shorter antennas and exhibits a distinct maximum atL=2.8 ± 0.3 µm. For the first time, we have investigated the 30 THz radiation patterns of nanostrip dipole antennas of different lengths. On this occasion, we have observed that the radiation pattern changes when the lengthL of the dipole antenna is varied. This observation indicates that antenna currents propagate on the nanostrip dipole antenna.     

Circularly polarized unidirectional emission via a coupled plasmonic spiral antenna

In this Letter, we study the emission properties of an electric dipole emitter coupled to a plasmonic spiral structure. The plasmonic spiral structure functions as an optical antenna, coupling the electric dipole emission into circularly polarized unidirectional emission in the far field. Increasing number of turns of the spiral leads to narrower angular width of the emission pattern in the far field. For a spiral antenna with six turns, antenna directivity of 23.5 dB with a directional emission into a narrow angular cone of 4.3° can be achieved. The emitted photons carry spin that is essentially determined by the handedness of the spiral antenna. By reversing the spiral, one can switch the polarization of the emission field between left-hand and right-hand circular polarizations. The spiral antenna may be used as a nanoscale circular polarization source in single molecule sensing, single-photo sources, and integrated photonic circuits.