A Circular Aperture Array Configuration with a Small Antenna Radius

Takanori NORO
Yasuhiro KAZAMA
Masaharu TAKAHASHI
Koichi ITO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E90-B    No.9    pp.2271-2279
Publication Date: 2007/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.9.2271
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on 2006 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation)
Category: Antennas
Keyword: 
array configuration,  uniform arrangement,  patch antennas helical antennas,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, small sized arrays with a few elements are investigated. The antenna diameter is assumed to be less than 3λo. The focus of this paper is to compare the gain characteristics of a triangle arrangement with these of a uniform arrangement. The method of moments is used to calculating the gain characteristics. It is shown that the triangle arrangement is not always sufficient to obtain maximum gain for a small-sized antenna with only a few elements. Also, the type of antenna element used greatly influences the required number of elements and the element configuration.