TY - JOUR
T1 - A Modified Two-Antenna Method to Measure the Radiation Efficiency of Antennas in a Reverberation Chamber
AU - Xu, Qian
AU - Huang, Yi
AU - Zhu, Xu
AU - Xing, Lei
AU - Tian, Zhihao
AU - Song, Chaoyun
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - A modified two-antenna method is proposed to measure the radiation efficiency of antennas in a reverberation chamber. By combining the conventional reference antenna method and the one-antenna method, and introducing a virtual antenna, the proposed method does not need a reference antenna with known efficiency and can be applied to highly lossy antennas, which could be problematic for the existing methods. Measurements are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The proposed method can be regarded as a generalized form of the two-antenna method and is compared to the existing reverberation chamber methods. The advantages and limitations of the proposed approach are also discussed.
AB - A modified two-antenna method is proposed to measure the radiation efficiency of antennas in a reverberation chamber. By combining the conventional reference antenna method and the one-antenna method, and introducing a virtual antenna, the proposed method does not need a reference antenna with known efficiency and can be applied to highly lossy antennas, which could be problematic for the existing methods. Measurements are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The proposed method can be regarded as a generalized form of the two-antenna method and is compared to the existing reverberation chamber methods. The advantages and limitations of the proposed approach are also discussed.
U2 - 10.1109/LAWP.2015.2443987
DO - 10.1109/LAWP.2015.2443987
M3 - Article
SN - 1536-1225
VL - 15
SP - 336
EP - 339
JO - IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
JF - IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
ER -