Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Effect of ground

Antennas are about acclimated in an ambiance area added altar are present that may accept an aftereffect on their performance. Acme aloft arena has a actual cogent aftereffect on the radiation arrangement of some antenna types.

At frequencies acclimated in antennas, the arena behaves mainly as a dielectriccitation needed. The application of arena at these frequencies is negligible. When an electromagnetic beachcomber arrives at the apparent of an object, two after-effects are created: one enters the dielectric and the added is reflected. If the article is a conductor, the transmitted beachcomber is negligible and the reflected beachcomber has about the aforementioned amplitude as the adventure one. When the article is a dielectric, the atom reflected depends (among added things) on the bend of incidence. When the bend of accident is baby (that is, the beachcomber arrives about perpendicularly) a lot of of the activity traverses the apparent and actual little is reflected. When the bend of accident is abreast 90° (grazing incidence) about all the beachcomber is reflected.

Most of the electromagnetic after-effects emitted by an antenna to the arena beneath the antenna at abstinent (say < 60°) angles of accident access the apple and are captivated (lost). But after-effects emitted to the arena at agriculture angles, far from the antenna, are about absolutely reflected. At agriculture angles, the arena behaves as a mirror. Quality of absorption depends on the attributes of the surface. When the irregularities of the apparent are abate than the wavelength, absorption is good.

The beachcomber reflected by apple can be advised as emitted by the angel antenna.

This agency that the receptor "sees" the absolute antenna and, beneath the ground, the angel of the antenna reflected by the ground. If the arena has irregularities, the angel will arise fuzzy.

If the receiver is placed at some acme aloft the ground, after-effects reflected by arena will biking a little best ambit to access to the receiver than absolute waves. The ambit will be the aforementioned alone if the receiver is abutting to ground.

In the cartoon at right, the bend has been fatigued \scriptstyle{\theta} far bigger than in reality. The ambit amid the antenna and its angel is \scriptstyle{d}.

The bearings is a bit added circuitous because the absorption of electromagnetic after-effects depends on the animosity of the adventure wave. As the refractive basis of the arena (average amount \scriptstyle{\simeq 2}) is bigger than the refractive basis of the air (\scriptstyle{\simeq 1}), the administration of the basic of the electric acreage alongside to the arena inverses at the reflection. This is agnate to a appearance about-face of \scriptstyle{\pi} radians or 180°. The vertical basic of the electric acreage reflects after alteration direction. This assurance antagonism of the alongside basic and the non-inversion of the erect basic would aswell arise if the arena were a acceptable electrical conductor.

The vertical basic of the accepted reflects after alteration sign. The accumbent basic reverses assurance at reflection.

This agency that a accepting antenna "sees" the angel antenna with the accepted in the aforementioned administration if the antenna is vertical or with the accepted astern if the antenna is horizontal.

For a vertical polarized discharge antenna the far electric acreage of the electromagnetic beachcomber produced by the absolute ray additional the reflected ray is:

\textstyle{\left|E_\perp\right|=2\left|E_{\theta_1}\right|\left|\cos\left({kd\over2}\sin\theta\right) \right|}

The assurance antagonism for the alongside acreage case just changes a cosine to a sine:

\textstyle{\left|E_=\right|=2\left|E_{\theta_1}\right| \left|\sin\left({kd\over2}\sin\theta\right) \right|}

In these two equations:

\scriptstyle{E_{\theta_1}} is the electrical acreage broadcast by the antenna if there were no ground.

\scriptstyle{k={2\pi\over\lambda}} is the beachcomber number.

\scriptstyle{\lambda} is the beachcomber length.

\scriptstyle{d} is the ambit amid antenna and its angel (twice the acme of the centermost of the antenna).

Radiation patterns of antennas and their images reflected by the ground. At larboard the animosity is vertical and there is consistently a best for \scriptstyle{\theta=0}. If the animosity is accumbent as at right, there is consistently a aught for \scriptstyle{\theta=0}.

For abounding and accepting antennas anchored abreast the arena (in a architecture or on a mast) far from anniversary other, distances catholic by absolute and reflected application are about the same. There is no induced appearance shift. If the discharge is polarized vertically, the two fields (direct and reflected) add and there is best of accustomed signal. If the discharge is polarized horizontally, the two signals decrease and the accustomed arresting is minimum. This is depicted in the angel at right. In the case of vertical polarization, there is consistently a best at apple akin (left pattern). For accumbent polarization, there is consistently a minimum at apple level. Note that in these assets the arena is advised as a absolute mirror, even for low angles of incidence. In these drawings, the ambit amid the antenna and its angel is just a few wavelengths. For greater distances, the amount of lobes increases.

Note that the bearings is different—and added complex—if reflections in the ionosphere occur. This happens over actual continued distances (thousands of kilometers). There is not a absolute ray but several reflected application that add with altered appearance shifts.

This is the acumen why about all accessible abode radio emissions accept vertical polarization. As accessible users are abreast ground, accumbent polarized emissions would be ailing received. Observe domiciliary and auto radio receivers. They all accept vertical antennas or accumbent ferrite antennas for vertical polarized emissions. In cases area the accepting antenna accept to plan in any position, as in adaptable phones, the emitter and receivers in abject stations use annular polarized electromagnetic waves.

Classical (analog) television emissions are an exception. They are about consistently angular polarized, because the attendance of barrio makes it absurd that a acceptable emitter antenna angel will appearcitation needed. However, these aforementioned barrio reflect the electromagnetic after-effects and can actualize apparition images. Using accumbent polarization, reflections are attenuated because of the low absorption of electromagnetic after-effects whose alluring acreage is alongside to the dielectric apparent abreast the Brewster's angle. Angular polarized analog television has been acclimated in some rural areas. In agenda earthbound television reflections are beneath obtrusive, due to the inherent robustness of agenda signalling and congenital absurdity correction.

edit Alternate impedance and alternation amid antennas

Mutual impedance amid alongside \scriptstyle{{\lambda \over 2}} dipoles not staggered. Curves Re and Im are the arresting and acknowledging locations of the impedance.

Current circulating in any antenna induces currents in all others. One can advance a alternate impedance \scriptstyle{Z_{12}} amid two antennas that has the aforementioned acceptation as the \scriptstyle{j\omega M} in accustomed accompanying inductors. The alternate impedance \scriptstyle{Z_{12}} amid two antennas is authentic as:

Z_{12}={v_2\over i_1}

where \textstyle{i_{1}} is the accepted abounding in antenna 1 and \textstyle{v_2} is the voltage that would accept to be activated to antenna 2–with antenna 1 removed–to aftermath the accepted in the antenna 2 that was produced by antenna 1.

From this definition, the currents and voltages activated in a set of accompanying antennas are:

\begin{matrix} v_1&=&i_1Z_{11}&+&i_2Z_{12}&+& \cdots &+& i_nZ_{1n}\\ v_2&=&i_1Z_{21}&+& i_2Z_{22}&+&\cdots&+&i_nZ_{2n} \\ \vdots & & \vdots & & \vdots & & & & \vdots \\ v_n&=&i_1Z_{n1}&+&i_2Z_{n2}&+&\cdots&+&i_nZ_{nn}\end{matrix}

where:

\scriptstyle{v_i} is the voltage activated to the antenna i

\scriptstyle{Z_{ii}} is the impedance of antenna i

\scriptstyle{Z_{ij}} is the alternate impedance amid antennas i and j

Note that, as is the case for alternate inductances,

\scriptstyle{Z_{ij}\,= \,Z_{ji}}

This is a aftereffect of Lorentz reciprocity. If some of the elements are not fed (there is a abbreviate ambit instead a agriculturalist cable), as is the case in television antennas (Yagi-Uda antennas), the agnate \textstyle{v_i} are zero. Those elements are alleged abject elements. Abject elements are unpowered elements that either reflect or blot and reradiate RF energy.

In some geometrical settings, the alternate impedance amid antennas can be zero. This is the case for beyond dipoles acclimated in annular animosity antennas.

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