POZAR chapter 14: RF MICROWAVE SYSTEMS. Example 01 __ 11/11/2020 12:25:43.

EXAMPLE 14.1
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in2m=25.4e-3;

c0=3e8; % [m/s] light speed

f0=12.4e9; % [Hz]

lambda0=c0/f0 lambda0 =
0.024193548387097
% far field starts here:

Diam_in=18 Diam_in =
18
Diam_m=in2m*Diam_in Diam_m =
0.457200000000000
Rff=2*Diam_m^2/lambda0 Rff =
17.279965440000002

The reactive near field threshold distance is known to be

Rnf=.62*(Diam_m^3/lambda0)^.5 Rff_small_antenna =
0.048387096774194

For small antennas D << , 2*D^2/ does not work correctly, because threshold distance too small, then one would have used simply

Rff_small_antenna=2*lambda0

The decision whether a wave front is still spherical or flat is done by finding out when the antenna diameter is equivalent to wave front 'corrugation' less
than /8 = 22.5º

L_chord_ff=2*Rff*sin(.5*pi/8) L_chord_ff =
6.742308044234335
Arc_ff=Rff*pi/8 Arc_ff =
6.785826560073691
h_ff=Rff*(1-cos(.5*pi/8)) h_ff =
0.332029690571469

L_chord_ff/Rff =
0.390180644032257
Arc_ff/Rff =
0.392699081698724
h_ff/Rff =
0.019214719596770

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Near Field Calculator:

Reactive Near Field Distance : 1.23268333 m

Radiating Near Field Distance : 17.29192892 m

https://www.everythingrf.com/rf-calculators/antenna-near-field-distance-calculator

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Where to start, to measure Antennas Near Field / Far Field thresholds. Attached application note from Near Field Systems Inc.

https://www.keysight.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/NSI-near-far.pdf?&cc=ES&lc=eng

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Where is the whole collection of exercises?

This exercise is part of the collection of exercises Microwave Engineering POZAR 4th ed solved with MATLAB available in this website:
https://jgb2012.wixsite.com/microwave-eng-matlab

How can one get the main literature reference?

For instance from:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Microwave-Engineering-David-M-Pozar/dp/0470631554

What about the solutions manual?

It's freely available https://www.scribd.com/doc/176505749/Microwave-engineering-pozar-4th-Ed-solutions-manual

For educational purposes only: https://www.copyrightuser.org/understand/exceptions/education/

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