A Ray Description for Collective Surface Fields Produced by Large Conformal Arrays on a Convex Metallic Surface
Conference: EuCAP 2009 - 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
03/23/2009 - 03/27/2009 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: EuCAP 2009
Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Janpugdee, Panuwat (Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Pathak, Prabhakar H.; Burkholder, Robert J. (ElectroScience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, USA)
Abstract:
An asymptotic ray solution is obtained for the collective surface field produced by a large aperture that is conformal to a smooth convex metallic surface. It is expressed in closed form as a few surface rays emanating from specific points on the aperture boundary to propagate along the geodesic surface ray paths to the observation point on the surface.