MAR analysis of a spherical-circular printed antenna with finite ground excited by an axially symmetric probe

The paper deals with an accurate mathematical and numerical analysis of a spherical-circular antenna printed over a coaxial spherical-circular ground conductor. A coaxial probe simulated by a radial driving current placed between two conductors excites the antenna. Consideration is done in terms of the spherical vector wave function expansions of the field in each partial domain. The problem is cast into a coupled set of the dual-series equations for the expansion coefficients, and then to an infinite-matrix equation having favorable features. This is achieved by following the Method of Analytical Regularization developed earlier for the analysis of spherical reflectors.

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