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Novel approach to the measurement of ultra wideband antenna efficiency

Pires, Nuno  
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Mendes, Carlos
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Koohestani, Mohsen  
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2013
IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

This Letter presents a new cavity-based approach for measuring the radiation efficiency of Ultra Wideband (UWB) antennas. The procedure is based on a generalized Wheeler cap method (GWCM ) that is only practical for narrowband measurements and so this Letter introduces an extension to UWB using source-stirring. The number of required measurements needed is relatively low and independent of the frequency span therefore making the technique convenient for UWB. A complete post-processing procedure to automatically identify and remove erroneous radiation efficiency predictions is presented. The new method was tested with a coplanar-fed UWB monopole and compared to existing UWB efficiency cavity-based measurement methods. The results show good agreement with simulations and compare favorably to other UWB-centric methods, confirming the proposed approach as a good alternative to measure UWB antenna radiation efficiency.

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DOI
10.1109/LAWP.2013.228994
Web of Science ID

WOS:000328053100002

Author(s)
Pires, Nuno  
Mendes, Carlos
Koohestani, Mohsen  
Skrivervik, Anja  
Moreira, António Alves
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Published in
IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume

12

Start page

1512

End page

1515

Subjects

Antenna measurements

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Antenna efficiency

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Wheeler cap

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Source-stirring

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Ultra wideband antennas

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