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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30898/1684-1719.2024.6.6

 

 

THE EVOLUTION AND APPLICATION OF NEW APPROACHES

for MODELING AND DEVELOPING OF SPARSE WIRE GRID ANTENNAS

 

M.T. Nguyen, A.F. Alhaj Hasan, T.R. Gazizov

 

Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics

634050, Russia, Tomsk, Lenina St., 40.

 

The paper was received June 26, 2023.

 

Abstract. Today, it is critical to continually research and improve antenna manufacturing techniques to meet the growing needs of the market. Using the advantages of numerical methods, researchers can extend the boundaries of antenna engineering by creating new and highly efficient antenna structures. In this paper, a preliminary study of two approaches for efficiently modeling and design sparse wire-grid antennas is carried out. The main idea is to create an optimal wire-grid structure that best follows the current paths in the antenna while maintaining its consistency with minimal mass. In addition, this structure can be used in further simulations with less resources and controlled performance accuracy. A parabolic reflector antenna and a conical horn antenna were used to explain the algorithms of the proposed approaches. The measured and calculated results for the equivalent wire-grid structure of these antennas were used for verification. To evaluate the effectiveness of these approaches, their results were compared with the results of other approaches proposed in previous works. The proposed approaches have shown advantages over others, and the optimal approach has been determined. Recommendations for use and future perspectives are given.

Key words: method of moments, wire-grid, sparse antennas, conical horn antenna, reflector antenna, optimal current grid approximation.

Financing: this research was funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation project FEWM-2023-0014.

Corresponding author: Alhaj Hasan Adnan Faiezovich, alkhadzh@tusur.ru

 

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For citation:

Nguyen M.T., Alhaj Hasan A.F., Gazizov T.R. The evolution and application of new approaches for modeling and developing of sparse wire grid antennas. // Journal of Radio Electronics. – 2024. – ¹. 6. https://doi.org/10.30898/1684-1719.2024.6.6 (In Russian)