IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Special Section on Recent Progress in Antennas and Propagation in Conjunction with Main Topics of ISAP2012
TE-Multipole DRAs for Installation on Composite Airframes
Derek GRAY
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2013 Volume E96.B Issue 10 Pages 2417-2424

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The 4 lowest Transverse-Electric modes of a cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna were investigated using a commercially available simulation software. All 4 modes were shown to produce dipole or multi-pole radiation patterns, having Transverse-Electric polarization as opposed to Transverse-Magnetic as with conventional wire antennas. The even numbered modes were shown to be applicable to the niche application of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to ground station communications. A practical design for the lowest order even mode was prepared, and successfully demonstrated on a carbon fiber reinforced plastic ground plane. That design was then shown in simulation to have less adverse interaction when installed on a common small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle airframe at the new 5.05GHz telemetry band than an off-airframe dipole.

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