APPERTURE ANTENNAS AND

HORN ANTENNAS
CACERES, Crichelle Mae
August 22, 2017
Apperture Antennas
Are most common at microwave frequencies
There are many different geometrical configurations of an aperture
antenna with some of the most popular like:
Apperture Antennas
Are very practical for space applications, because they can be flush
mounted on the surface of the spacecraft or aircraft.
Their opening can be covered with a dielectric material to protect
them from environmental conditions.
This type of mounting does not disturb the aerodynamic profile of the
craft, which in high-speed applications is critical.
The mathematical tools will be developed to analyze the radiation
characteristics of aperture antennas.
FIELD EQUIVALENCE: HUYGENS PRINCIPLE
The field equivalence is a principle by which actual sources, such as an
antenna and transmitter, are replaced by equivalent sources.
The fictitious sources are said to be equivalent within a region
because they produce the same fields within that region. The
formulations of scattering and diffraction problems by the
equivalence principle are more suggestive to approximations.
HUYGENS PRINCIPLE
which states that each point on a primary wavefront can be
considered to be a new source of a secondary spherical wave and that
a secondary wave front can be constructed as the envelope of these
secondary spherical waves.
The equivalence principle is based on the uniqueness theorem which
states that a field in a lossy region is uniquely specified by the sources
within the region plus the tangential components of the electric field
over the boundary, or the tangential components of the magnetic field
over the boundary, or the former over part of the boundary and the
latter over the rest of the boundary.
HUYGENS PRINCIPLE
In most applications, the closed surface is selected so that most of it
coincides with the conducting parts of the physical structure. This is
preferred because the vanishing of the tangential electric field
components over the conducting parts of the surface reduces the
physical limits of integration.