"JOURNAL OF RADIO ELECTRONICS" (Zhurnal Radioelektroniki ISSN 1684-1719, N 1, 2018

contents of issue      DOI  10.30898/1684-1719-2018-1-9       full text in Russian (pdf)   

NUMERICAL MODELLING OF DIFFRACTION OF ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FIELD ON PYRAMIDAL RADIO-ABSORBER ON THE SIDE WALLS OF THE COMPACT RANGE

 

A. V. Nikitenko,  A. S. Zubov

Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Izhorskaya 13, Moscow 125412, Russia

 

 The paper is received on December 15, 2017, after correction - on January 20, 2018

 

Abstract. Several issues concerning diffraction from pyramidal radio absorber that covers walls of a compact range are considered in this paper. In particular, differences in convergence and localization of higher order diffraction fields are demonstrated in comparison with those scattered on the back wall. In the case of the diffraction from the back wall, the incidence is almost normal to the wall, thus zero-order field is significantly lower than higher-order reflected harmonics (-70 dB compared to -30 dB). In the case of the back wall, the angle of incidence can be very close to even 90 degrees, thus zero-order harmonic’s amplitude becomes higher than amplitudes of high diffraction orders (-20 dB compared to -35 dB). However, the distribution of these fields in compact range’s space is different: there are regions in which amplitudes of high diffraction orders are bigger than the amplitude of zero-order diffraction. In this paper we develop a method of calculating zero order and higher order diffraction from the side walls of a compact range. Convergence of the algorithm is studied; recommendations on parameters of the calculation, such as size of the grid are given. Higher order harmonic’s amplitude distribution is calculated and studied. We show that the values of the higher orders can reach -35 dB and even higher. Considering the fact that single-periodic radio-absorbers, for example wedge-shaped absorbers scatter significantly less higher orders, one can use algorithms from this study for more accurate compact range design and choice of absorber in particular.

Key words: 3D RCWA, radio-absorbing material, anechoic chamber, compact range.

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For citation:
A. V. Nikitenko,  A. S. Zubov. Numerical modelling of diffraction of electromagnetic field on pyramidal radio-absorber on the side walls of the compact range. Zhurnal Radioelektroniki - Journal of Radio Electronics. 2018. No. 1. Available at http://jre.cplire.ru/jre/jan18/8/text.pdf.

DOI  10.30898/1684-1719-2018-1-9