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Physical Bounds of Antennas

Gustafsson, Mats LU orcid ; Tayli, Doruk LU and Cismasu, Marius LU (2015) p.1-32
Abstract
Design of small antennas is challenging because fundamental physics limits the antennas performance. Physical bounds provide basic restrictions on the antenna performance solely expressed in the available antenna design space. These bounds offer antenna designers a priori information about the feasibility of antenna designs and a figure of merit for different antenna designs. Here, an overview of physical bounds on antennas and the development from circumscribing spheres to arbitrary shaped regions and embedded antennas are presented. The underlying assumptions for the methods based on circuit models, mode expansions, forward scattering, and current optimization are illustrated and their pros and cons are discussed. The physical bounds are... (More)
Design of small antennas is challenging because fundamental physics limits the antennas performance. Physical bounds provide basic restrictions on the antenna performance solely expressed in the available antenna design space. These bounds offer antenna designers a priori information about the feasibility of antenna designs and a figure of merit for different antenna designs. Here, an overview of physical bounds on antennas and the development from circumscribing spheres to arbitrary shaped regions and embedded antennas are presented. The underlying assumptions for the methods based on circuit models, mode expansions, forward scattering, and current optimization are illustrated and their pros and cons are discussed. The physical bounds are compared with numerical data for several antennas. (Less)
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Physical bounds, Limitations, Stored energy, Q-factor, Small antennas, Circuit models, Mode expansions, Forward scattering, Sum rules, Convex optimization
host publication
Handbook of Antenna Technologies
editor
Chen, Zhi Ning
pages
1 - 32
publisher
Springer
ISBN
978-981-4560-75-7
DOI
10.1007/978-981-4560-75-7_18-1
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EIT_CACO-EMD Complex analysis and convex optimization for EM design
language
English
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d208a618-4632-4c75-8395-943b9730e03b (old id 8408723)
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  abstract     = {{Design of small antennas is challenging because fundamental physics limits the antennas performance. Physical bounds provide basic restrictions on the antenna performance solely expressed in the available antenna design space. These bounds offer antenna designers a priori information about the feasibility of antenna designs and a figure of merit for different antenna designs. Here, an overview of physical bounds on antennas and the development from circumscribing spheres to arbitrary shaped regions and embedded antennas are presented. The underlying assumptions for the methods based on circuit models, mode expansions, forward scattering, and current optimization are illustrated and their pros and cons are discussed. The physical bounds are compared with numerical data for several antennas.}},
  author       = {{Gustafsson, Mats and Tayli, Doruk and Cismasu, Marius}},
  booktitle    = {{Handbook of Antenna Technologies}},
  editor       = {{Chen, Zhi Ning}},
  isbn         = {{978-981-4560-75-7}},
  keywords     = {{Physical bounds; Limitations; Stored energy; Q-factor; Small antennas; Circuit models; Mode expansions; Forward scattering; Sum rules; Convex optimization}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{1--32}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  title        = {{Physical Bounds of Antennas}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-75-7_18-1}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/978-981-4560-75-7_18-1}},
  year         = {{2015}},
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