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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 46 Number 2, February 1998

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An Integral Equation and its Application to Spiral Antennas on Semi-Infinite Dielectric Materials

Hisamatsu Nakano, Fellow, IEEE, Kazuhide Hirose, Member, IEEE, Ichiro Ohshima, and Junji Yamauchi, Member, IEEE

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Abstract:

This paper presents an integral equation that can handle wire antennas on a semi-infinite dielectric material. The integral equation is reduced to a set of linear equations by the method of moments. For efficiency, the impedance matrix element Z_{m, n} is divided into two parts on the basis of weighted Green's function extractions. The far-zone radiation field, which is formulated using the stationary phase method, is also described. After the validity of the presented numerical techniques is checked using a bow-tie antenna, a spiral antenna is analyzed. The current distribution, radiation pattern, axial ratio, power gain, and input impedance are discussed. It is found that the radiation field inside a dielectric material is circularly polarized. As the relative permittivity of the dielectric material increases, the angle coverage over which the axial ratio is less than 3 dB becomes narrower.

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