Date of Award
12-1990
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Department
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Advisor
Harry Barksdale, Major, USAF
Abstract
This study presents a method of moments solution for the surface currents and charge distributions on an aperture-fed, stacked patch antenna. To make the solution independent of the antenna excitation technique, an aperture magnetic current distribution is assumed, and the spatial Green's functions of the antenna are used to calculate the tangential fields on the antenna patches and coefficients for a finite series expression of the surface currents and charge densities. The Green's functions of the antenna are modeled with polynomials that are a function of the radial distance separating observer and source locations. The method of moments solution is implemented using FORTRAN 77 and requires no external software support. The numerical techniques, algorithms, and complete software functional descriptions are also included.
AFIT Designator
AFIT-GE-ENG-90D-27
DTIC Accession Number
ADA230466
Recommended Citation
Irvin, William L., "A Method of Moments Solution for the Electric Currents on an Aperture-Fed, Stacked Patch Microstrip Antenna" (1990). Theses and Dissertations. 7961.
https://scholar.afit.edu/etd/7961
Comments
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