Light scattering from an array of aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) has previously been investigated, and shown to be consistent with that from an array of antennae. Two basic antenna effects have been demonstrated: 1) the polarization effect, which suppresses the response of an antenna when the electric field of the incoming radiation is polarized perpendicular to the dipole antenna ...

Abstract—In this paper, two radiation pattern-reconfigurable antennas are designed to operate near the frequency of 1.8 GHz. The geometry of the proposed antennas is symmetric with respect to the vertical center line. The electrical shapes of the antennas are composed of a monopole-loaded loop and an open wire. The open wire functions as either a director or reflector for the two antennas. Depe...

Evidence is presented which indicates that, notwithstanding the change in sign made by Sommerfeld in his 1926 paper on radio wave propagation, the radiation field of a vertical electric dipole may be separated into space and surface wave components. Sommerfeld's original concepts as to the characteristics of two such waves in radio transmission are largely substantiated. It is shown that a spac...

The computer program NEC-2, which calculates the currents on wire-grid models by the method of moments, is modified to analyse structures which consist of a collection of disconnected substructures. The matrix equation for the currents is solved by means of iteration between the substructures using the Siedel method. The convergence is accelerated using an extrapolation technique. For a structu...

The development of effective techniques for guiding pulsed terahertz radiation is essential for the continued development of terahertz spectroscopy and imaging applications based on the technique of time-domain spectroscopy. Terahertz surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) can be excited and guided on cylindrical metal wires with low loss and dispersion. This propagating surface wave, known as a Som...

Efficient and accurate modeling of electromagnetic structures is valuable in antenna analysis and design, and time domain solutions are at a premium over frequency domain in the case of ultra wide band signals or transients. Among the full wave electromagnetic methods in time domain the method of moments in time domain (MoM-TD) is very interesting. Such a method can be implemented, as for frequ...

The paper discusses aspects of a novel impedance matrix compressing technique and applies the technique to a coil-loaded monopole. The technique can reduce the number of variables required for modeling of structures with curvatures and structures with electrically small features. The reduction in the number of unknowns is accomplished by a logical aggregation/grouping of the individual wire seg...

A self calibration algorithm for direction finding in the presence of arbitrary shape 3D scatterers of resonating size is presented. This algorithm removes the effects of mutual coupling and 3D scatterers on direction of arrival estimation. The scatterers and wire type antenna array are excited by incident plane waves of arbitrary direction. The 3D scatterers shape is approximated as a sphere, ...