AB02: Recent Advances in Antenna Measurement Techniques (2)

Wednesday, August 20  16:00-17:40,  Room #18

Session Chairs: William Davis, Olav Breinbjerg

Recent advances in practical and theoretical aspects of near as well as far-field antenna measurements. The session spans from small body-area-network antennas where interaction with the measurement system is challenging, over adaptive antennas for which measurement of all states becomes too time-consuming, to large satellite antennas where size and space-functionality may prevent direct measurements. The session also encompasses processing of measurement data, e.g. antenna diagnostics and measurement facility validation.

16:00  AB02.1   A NOVEL APPROACH FOR TESTING ANTENNAS WITH INTERNAL SOURCES: PHASELESS NEAR-FIELD MEASUREMENTS

Y. Rahmat-Samii, T. Brockett

Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, United States


16:20  AB02.2   RECENT ADVANCES IN ANTENNA MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES AT THE DTU-ESA SPHERICAL NEAR-FIELD ANTENNA TEST FACILITY

O. Breinbjerg, S. N. Pivnenko, O. S. Kim, J. M. Nielsen

Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark


16:40  AB02.3   FAST IRREGULAR ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD TRANSFORMATION UTILIZING SPATIAL OR SPECTRAL EQUIVALENT SOURCES REPRESENTATIONS TOGETHER WITH HIERARCHICAL RADIATION OPERATOR EVALUATION

T. Eibert, R. Mauermayer, G. Schnattinger

TUM HFT, Munich, Germany


17:00  AB02.4   DUAL PROBE USE FOR THE REMOTE MEASUREMENT OF AN ANTENNA UNDER TEST

W. A. Davis, T. Yang

ECE, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States


17:20  AB02.5   CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEMS IN RIMP AND RANDOM-LOS ENVIRONMENTS USING PROBABILITY OF DETECTION OF DIFFERENT BIT STREAMS

X. Chen, P. -S. Kildal

Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden