Antenna Applications Symposium 2008 Monticello, Illinois, USA 16 18 September 2008 ISBN: 978-1-61782-824-9
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2008 ANTENNA APPLICATIONS SYMPOSIUM 16-18 September 2008 Monticello, Illinois Advances in the Development of Electronically Scanned Arrays of Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antennas M.W. Elsallal, D.H. Schaubert, and J.B. West Comparison of the Broadband Properties of Arrays Having Time-Delayed Four- and Eight-Element Polyomino Subarrays R.J. Mailloux, S.G. Santarelli, T.M. Roberts and D. Luu Broadband Array Antenna M. Stasiowski and D. Schaubert Stripline Fed Low Profile Radiating Elements for Use in Integrated Arrays M.J. Buckley, L.M. Paulsen, J.D. Wolf and J.B. West Antenna Element Pattern Reconfigurability in Adaptive Arrays T.L. Roach and J.T. Bernhard -Coaxial Phased Arrays for Ka-Band Communications D. Filipovic, G.Potvin, D. Fontaine, Y. Saito, J-M. Rollin, Z. Popovic, M. Lukic, K. Vanhille and C. Nichols Phased Array for Multi-Direction Secure Communication M.P. Daly and J.T. Bernhard A Wideband, Dual-Polarized, Differentially-Fed Cavity- Backed Slot Antenna R.C. Paryani, P.F. Wahid and N. Behdad Miniaturized Microstrip Patch Antennas for Dual Band GPS Operation S.S. Holland and D.H. Schaubert On the Use of Spiral Antennas for Electronic Attack M.J. Radway, W.N. Kefauver and D.S. Filipovic 1 17 42 60 86 104 116 132 143 154 i
A Class of Electrically Small Spherical Antennas with Near- Minimum Q J.J. Adams and J.T. Bernhard Metamaterials and Their RF Properties J.S. Derov, E.E. Crisman and A.J. Drehman Scan Impedance for an Infinite Dipole Array: Accurate Theory Model Versus Numerical Software S.N. Makarov, A. Puzella and V. Iyer Novel Hybrid Tolerance Analysis Method with Application to the Low Cost Manufacture of Edge Slot Waveguide Arrays B.J. Herting, M.W. Elsallal, J.C. Mather and J.B. West Design of Coplanar Waveguide Fed Tapered-Slot Antenna Arrays for High-Power Space Distributed Amplifier Applications A. Rivera-Albino and R.A. Rodriguez-Solis Efficient Global Optimization for Antenna Design H.L. Southall, T.H. O Donnell and B. Kaanta Helicopter Mounted Radar Installed Characterisation Assessments: Theoretical Predictions and Measurements C. McCartney The RF Cuttlefish: Overview of Biologically Inspired Concepts for Smart Skins and Reconfigurable Antennas G.H. Huff, S. Goldberger and S.A. Long Investigation of the Null Steering Capability of Yagi-Uda Arrays with Variable Reactive Loads D.F. Kelley and T.J. Destan Non-Foster Matching of Electrically-Small Antennas to Transmitters S.E. Sussman-Fort and R.M. Rudish. Using Series Resonators in Parallel to Achieve Broadband Performance in Inductively Loaded Antennas P.E. Mayes, P.W. Klock and S. Barot 165 176 190 222 233 250 270 291 306 326 343 ii
Design and Limitations of Ku/Ka Band Compact Feeds Employing Dielectric Loaded Corrugated Horns J.P. Creticos and D.H. Schaubert A Tunable Dielectric Patch Antenna E.M.A. Oliveira, S.N. Makarov, C. Dill and R. Ludwig Investigation of a Reconfigurable Stacked Patch with Beamsteering Capabilities J.E. Ruyle and J.T. Bernhard A Structurally-Functionalizable Archimedean Spiral Aperchassis G.H. Huff Evaluation of Human Body Interaction for the Enhancement of a Broadband Body-Borne Radio Geolocation System A. Lalezari, F. Lalezari, B. Jeong and D. Filipovic Investigation of Ground Plane Slot Designs for Isolation of Cosited Microstrip Antennas K.C. Kerby and J.T. Bernhard A New Radio Direction Finder for Wildlife Research II T.A. Borrowman, S.J. Franke and G.W. Swenson, Jr. Pillbox Antenna with a Dipole Feed W.R. Pickles and M.G. Parent The State-of-the-Art in Small Wideband Antennas S.R. Best 363 388 410 426 436 454 463 472 492 iii