Principles of Planar Near-Field Antenna Measurements

Stuart Gregson MIET, MIoP, CEng, CPhys, CSci has BSc and MSc degrees in Physics from the University of Portsmouth, and a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London. He has special experience with near-field antenna measurement, finite array mutual coupling, computational electromagnetics and installed antenna performance prediction, and has published numerous peer-reviewed research papers. He is currently with Nearfield Systems Incorporated.John McCormick MIET, MIoP, FIScT, CPhys, CEng, CSci holds HNC Instrumentation Systems, BA Occupational Hygiene, BSc Natural Sciences/Physics, MSc Solid State Physics and PhD degrees from South Bank, Portsmouth and Open Universities successively. Within DERA, then BAE SYSTEMS and now SELEX SAS Edinburgh, from junior chemistry technician to lead radar systems engineer he has extensive experience in antenna, RCS and EW research and development.Clive Parini FIET is currently Professor of Antenna Engineering and Head of the Antenna and Electromagnetics Research Group at Queen Mary, University of London. In 1990 he jointly received the IET Measurements Prize for work on near-field reflector metrology. He was previously chairman of the IET Antennas and Propagation Professional Network Executive Team and an honorary editor for the IET Journal Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic wave propagationChapter 3: Introduction to near-field antenna measurementsChapter 4: Plane wave spectrum representation of electromagnetic wavesChapter 5: Measurements - practicalities of planar near-field antenna measurementsChapter 6: Probe pattern characterisationChapter 7: Computational electromagnetic model of a planar near-field measurement processChapter 8: Antenna measurement analysis and assessmentChapter 9: Advanced planar near-field antenna measurementsAppendices

'At last, a must-have complete reference source for the foundations, principles and practice of planar near field antenna measurements. The principles are presented in user friendly math from the Maxwellian basis, to the plane wave spectra, to the latest advances. Practical measurement aspects, including sampling, alignment, truncation, positioning errors, polarization and multiple reflections, are examined in detail. This book is a brilliant collection of the body-of-knowledge of planar near field measurement with extensions to the future. I highly recommend this book for antenna measurement practitioners and those new to antenna measurements.'