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Spiral, Helical, and Rod Antennas

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Various antennas radiating a circularly polarized wave are reviewed on the basis of numerical techniques. The method of moments, the finite-difference time-domain method, the beam-propagation method, and the finite element method are employed to clarify the operation principles of spiral, helical, and rod antennas. A novel type of spiral antenna (a metamaterial-based spiral antenna) can provide a dual-band counter-circularly polarized wave. Since the operation principle of an endfire-mode helical antenna is very close to that of a dielectric rod antenna, the so-called discontinuity-radiation concept of a surface-wave antenna is discussed using a dielectric rod. Modification of the dielectric rod is studied to achieve a higher gain. A rod antenna based on an artificial dielectric is also investigated using a periodic structure of circular metal disks.

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  1. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Hosei University, 3-7-2 Kajino, 184-8584, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

    Hisamatsu Nakano & Junji Yamauchi

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Zhi Ning Chen

  2. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

    Duixian Liu

  3. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

    Hisamatsu Nakano

  4. Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore

    Xianming Qing

  5. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Thomas Zwick

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Nakano, H., Yamauchi, J. (2016). Spiral, Helical, and Rod Antennas. In: Chen, Z., Liu, D., Nakano, H., Qing, X., Zwick, T. (eds) Handbook of Antenna Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-44-3_33

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