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2007-04-26
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Vol. 73, 327-341, 2007
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FDTD Modeling of Arbitrary Linear Lumped Networks Using Piecewise Linear Recursive Convolution Technique
Zhi-Hui Chen and Qing-Xin Chu
Based on the piecewise linear recursive convolution (PLRC) technique, FDTD modeling of Arbitrary linear lumped networks is studied in this paper, including one-port networks and two-port networks. Their general FDTD iterative formulations are obtained. Firstly, the admittance parameters in Laplace domain of lumped network are written as a summation form of several rational fractions; then the time domain admittance parameters can be obtained by means of inverse Fourier transform technique. Finally the time domain results are directly incorporated into the Maxwell- Ampere's difference equation using the PLRC technique. It is worth pointing out that this approach preserves the second-order accuracy and the explicit nature of the conventional FDTD method. The proposed technique can be extended to model arbitrary linear multiport lumped networks. To show the validity of the proposed algorithm, we analyze two microstrip circuits including lumped networks. The results are compared with those obtained from the Z-transform technique and the good agreement is achieved.
FDTD MODELING OF ARBITRARY LINEAR LUMPED NETWORKS USING PIECEWISE LINEAR RECURSIVE CONVOLUTION TECHNIQUE
2007-04-22
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Vol. 73, 297-325, 2007
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Study of an Electrically Anisotropic Cylinder Excited Magnetically by a Straight Strip Line
Constantinos Valagiannopoulos
An infinite homogeneous circular cylinder with full permittivity tensor is excited by a straight strip flowed by arbitrary axial magnetic current. A nontrivial differential equation is derived for the single axial magnetic component which is assigned a plane wave representation. The boundary conditions lead to an integral equation with nonsingular kernel which is solved by supposing a Dirac comb representation for the unknown function. The resultant Green's function multiplied by the current distribution is integrated numerically over the source to give the total field. Various numerical examples are presented and discussed.
STUDY OF AN ELECTRICALLY ANISOTROPIC CYLINDER EXCITED MAGNETICALLY BY A STRAIGHT STRIP LINE
2007-04-18
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Vol. 73, 277-296, 2007
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Basis of Ionospheric Modification by High-Frequency Waves
Spencer P. Kuo
The requirements of achieving ionospheric modification by ground-transmitted HF heating waves are discussed. The directly relevant processes including linear mode conversion and parametric instabilities are explained physically. The nonlinear Schrodinger equation for Langmuir waves is reviewed and the initial conditions of two types of nonlinear solutions are discussed; from which the criterion for Langmuir soliton generation is pointed out.
BASIS OF IONOSPHERIC MODIFICATION BY
HIGH-FREQUENCY WAVES
2007-04-18
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Vol. 73, 249-275, 2007
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Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers: Origin, Management and Applications
Sunil Singh and Nar Singh
The nonlinear effects in optical fiber occur either due to intensity dependence of refractive index of the medium or due to inelastic-scattering phenomenon. This paper describes various types of nonlinear effects based on first effect such as self-phase modulation, cross-phase modulation and four-wave mixing. Their thresholds, managements and applications are also discussed; and comparative study of these effects is presented.
NONLINEAR EFFECTS IN OPTICAL FIBERS: ORIGIN, MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATIONS
2007-04-16
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Vol. 73, 239-247, 2007
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Analysis of the Connection Between k Connector and Microstrip with Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) Structures
Hong-Jie Xu , Yong-Hong Zhang and Yong Fan
For the application of K connector (K103F) at Ka-band, many problems exist, due to the complex method of installation. In this paper, the test fixture is simplified, and the performance of this section is improved with the Electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structure. Simulation results are presented for the connection structure with EBG; plots of the input reflection of geometrical and physical parameters are reported and commented on.
ANALYSIS OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN K CONNECTOR AND MICROSTRIP WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP (EBG) STRUCTURES
2007-04-16
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Vol. 73, 213-238, 2007
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An Effective Technique for Reducing the Truncation Error in the Near-Field-Far-Field Transformation with Plane-Polar Scanning
Francesco D'Agostino , Flaminio Ferrara , Claudio Gennarelli , Rocco Guerriero and Giovanni Riccio
An effective approach is proposed in this paper for estimating the near-field data external to the measurement region in the plane-polar scanning. It relies on the nonredundant sampling representations of the electromagnetic field and makes use of the singular value decomposition method for the extrapolation of the outside samples. It is so possible to reduce in a significant way the error due to the truncation of the measurement zone thus increasing the farfield angular region of good reconstruction. The comparison of such an approach, based on the optimal sampling interpolation expansions, with an existing procedure using the cardinal series has highlighted that the proposed technique works better. Some numerical tests are reported for demonstrating its effectiveness.
AN EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUE FOR REDUCING THE TRUNCATION ERROR IN THE NEAR-FIELD-FAR-FIELD TRANSFORMATION WITH PLANE-POLAR SCANNING
2007-04-13
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Vol. 73, 131-211, 2007
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THE SMALL-SLOPE APPROXIMATION METHOD APPLIED TO A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SLAB WITH ROUGH BOUNDARIES
2007-04-11
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Vol. 73, 107-129, 2007
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Radiation Characteristics of the Wood Lens Using Maslov's Method
Akhtar Hussain , Qaisar Naqvi and Kohei Hongo
The field refracted by a Wood lens is determined analytically and numerically in the focal region by Maslov's method. Results are compared withth ose obtained by weak focusing approximation and Kirchhoff's diffraction integral. Agreement among them is fairly good when the parameters satisfy the conditions associated to the approximation.
RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WOOD LENS USING MASLOV'S METHOD
2007-04-07
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Vol. 73, 93-105, 2007
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Computations of Electromagnetic Fields Radiated from Complex Lightning Channels
Ting-Xin Song , Yao-He Liu and Jian-Min Xiong
In this paper, three methods for calculating electromagnetic fields radiated from complex lightning channels are discussed, which includes channel obliqueness, branches and tortuosity. By rotating and moving the coordinate system of the vertical channel, differential expressions of electromagnetic fields from the irregular channel can be derived from the conclusions of the straight and vertical channel. Through analyzing calculation results of two examples reveals that channel tortuosity and branch is to introduce the higher frequency content above 100 kHz into lightning electromagnetic fields.
COMPUTATIONS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS RADIATED FROM COMPLEX LIGHTNING CHANNELS
2007-04-05
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Vol. 73, 71-91, 2007
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Electromagnetic Field from a Horizontal Electric Dipole on the Surface of a High Lossy Dielectric Coated with a Uniaxial Layer
Jian Mei and Kai Li
In this paper, the explicit formulas are derived for the six components of the electromagnetic field in air excited by a horizontal electric dipole over a planar high lossy dielectric coated with an anisotropic uniaxial layer. Similar to the case of the three-layered region consisting of air, a uniaxial layer,and a perfect conductor, the total field consists of the direct field,the ideal reflected field or the field of an ideal image, the lateral-wave field,and the trappedsurface- wave field. It should be pointed out that the trapped surface wave can be separated into the trapped wave of electric type and magnetic type. The wave numbers in the ρ̂ direction of electric-type trapped surface wave, which are between k0 and kL, are different from those of the magnetic-type trapped surface wave, which are between k0 and kL . When the thickness l of the uniaxial layer satisfies nπ < kT/kL (k2L - k20)1/2 · l < (n + 1)π, there are n + 1 modes of the electric-type trapped surface waves. When the thickness l satisfies (n − 1/2)π < (k2T −k20)1/2 · l < (n + 1/2)π, there are n modes of magnetictype trapped waves.
ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD FROM A HORIZONTAL ELECTRIC DIPOLE ON THE SURFACE OF A HIGH LOSSY DIELECTRIC COATED WITH A UNIAXIAL LAYER
2007-04-04
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Vol. 73, 61-69, 2007
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Perfect Electromagnetic Conductor (PEMC) and Fractional Waveguide
Akhtar Hussain and Qaisar Naqvi
Fractional curl operator has been utilized to study the fractional perfect electromagnetic conducting waveguide. The fractional perfect electromagnetic conducting waveguide may be regarded as intermediate step between the two given waveguides. One of the waveguide is composed of perfect electromagnetic conducting (PEMC) walls while other is dual of it as (DPEMC). Corresponding fields and surface impedance have been determined and boundary conditions for DPEMC surface have been derived.
2007-04-04
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Vol. 73, 49-59, 2007
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Near-Field to Far-Field Transformation with Planar Spiral Scanning
Sandra Costanzo and Giuseppe Di Massa
A transformation procedure directly computing the antenna far-field pattern from near-field samples acquired on a planar spiral is proposed in this paper. The convolution property of the radiation integral is exploited to efficiently perform the evaluation by taking advantages of the Fast Fourier Transform, without the need of any intermediate interpolation process. Validations on circular arrays of elementary dipoles are presented to show the effectiveness of the method.
NEAR-FIELD TO FAR-FIELD TRANSFORMATION WITH PLANAR SPIRAL SCANNING
2007-04-04
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Vol. 73, 39-47, 2007
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Microwave Surface Impedance of a Nearly Ferroelectric Superconductor
Chien-Jang Wu , Chao-Ming Fu and Tzong-Jer Yang
The intrinsic microwave surface impedance for a nearly ferroelectric superconducting film of finite thickness in the dielectriclike response is theoretically investigated. It is based on the electrodynamics of a nearly ferroelectric superconductor that incorporates the Maxwell's equations, the lattice equations for an ionic lattice, and the superconducting London equation as well. It is found that the surface resistance will be enhanced with decreasing the film thickness when the thickness is less than the London penetration depth. However it will begin to resonate as a function of film thickness at the thickness being more than one London penetration depth. The anomalous resonance peaks occur when the thickness equals the even multiple of the London penetration depth. In the frequency-dependent surface resistance, the number of the resonance peaks is strongly dependent on the film thickness, increasing with increasing the thickness. In addition, these peaks are not regularly spaced at a fixed interval. Discussion on this anomaly in the surface resistance will be given.
MICROWAVE SURFACE IMPEDANCE OF A NEARLY FERROELECTRIC SUPERCONDUCTOR
2007-03-31
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Vol. 73, 29-38, 2007
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The Generalized Chebyshev Substrate Integrated Waveguide Diplexer
Shihu Han , Xi-Liang Wang , Yong Fan , Ziqiang Yang and Zhaner He
A new generalized chebyshev substrate integrated waveguide diplexer is presented for high performance. The diplexer is designed with triplet topology based on substrate integrated waveguide technique, which exhibit the generalized chebyshev responses. The triplet topology can facilitate the resonator arrangements of diplexer design for compact size. This diplexer possesses of the advantages of SIW and the generalized chebyshev filters. All couplings, including the negative coupling, are realized by H-plane open windows. A diplexer is designed by using 3th order asymmetric generalized chebyshev filter. Measured results are good agreement with simulation results.
THE GENERALIZED CHEBYSHEV SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE DIPLEXER
2007-03-30
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Vol. 73, 15-27, 2007
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Guided and Leaky Wave Characteristics of Periodic Defected Ground Structures
Hamidreza Oskouei , Keyvan Forooraghi and Mohammad Hakkak
In recent years, there has been significant research interest in microwave applications of defected ground structures. In this paper, three kinds of Periodic Defected Ground Structures are analyzed to assess their effects on surface and leaky waves. To achieve this purpose, the finite element method accompanied by Periodic boundary conditions is used to show the propagation characteristics of these periodic structures. Also, the existence of surface wave reduction property is investigated and finally the simulation Results are compared to the experimental results with reasonable agreement.
GUIDED AND LEAKY WAVE CHARACTERISTICS OF PERIODIC DEFECTED GROUND STRUCTURES
2007-03-30
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Vol. 73, 1-13, 2007
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Modal Dispersion Characteristics of a Single Mode Dielectric Optical Waveguide with a Guiding Region Cross-Section Bounded by Two Involuted Spirals
Praveen Pandey , Akta Mishra and Sant Ojha
With the use of scalar field approximation we make an analytical study of a dielectric waveguide whose core cross-section is bounded by two spirals of the form 1/r = ξθ. This waveguide is similar to that of a distorted slab waveguide in which both a curvature and a flare are present. We derived the modal characteristic equation by analytical analysis under the weak guidance approximation. We find the modal dispersion curve, which support only single mode propagation and the same compared with the same kind of waveguide with metal claddings.
MODAL DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS OF A SINGLE MODE DIELECTRIC OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE WITH A GUIDING REGION CROSS-SECTION BOUNDED BY TWO INVOLUTED SPIRALS