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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Spectral fields in planar multilayered structures excited by embedded sources.

Nilson Rafael Rabelo 22 December 2015 (has links)
This thesis picks up from the full-wave spectral-domain formalism developed at ITA's Antenna and Propagation Laboratory (LAP) for the analysis of electromagnetic radiation, scattering and propagation in structures composed of multiple layers made up of complex media. Besides the analysis and design of planar, cylindrical and spherical microstrip antennas, the methodology has also been successfully extended to remote sensing applications. Either way, a representative model needs to account for the geometric and electromagnetic characteristics of the particular structure, and for the electromagnetic excitation mechanism. Nonetheless, the focus so far had been on applications whose sources were distributed along the layer interfaces. So the goal in Chapters 2 and 3 is to extend the model coverage to vertical electric and magnetic sources embedded in planar structures made up of isotropic dielectric layers. Their spectral Green's functions are calculated using the auxiliary vector potential approach. In addition, horizontal electrical and magnetic sources are analyzed using LAP's technique, thus providing a consistent formalism to handle any combination. The limit case of infinitesimal current elements is derived, as well as that of a dipole holding a sinusoidal current distribution. Careful analysis of the boundary conditions affecting the tangential field components produces two uncoupled systems, one on the spectral electric field amplitudes, and another on the magnetic field, cutting down the mathematical workload and processing time. Hybrid microstrip antennas provide interesting means to overcome conventional antenna drawbacks, such as the significant H-plane cross-polarization level. Probe-fed hybrid microstrip antennas are analyzed in Chapter 4 via the resonant cavity and surface electric current models. The primary goal of systematically determining adequate design criteria is achieved and proved by predesigning an antenna for operation in 2.45 GHz. The design criteria are also validated by excellent experimental results for an antenna prototype that was manufactured and tested. As a side benefit, the use of analytical models permits the analysis of effects such as a radiation pattern asymmetry in the E plane, and a systematic study of its cross-polarization. Stratified layered structures containing scattering elements are used for modeling distributed natural targets. Their electromagnetic properties can be synthesized by the scattering matrix, which describes the dependence on signal polarization. From the scattering matrix, mathematical models for natural targets and other polarimetric target descriptors can be derived. Chiral effects and the stratified layer representation for certain natural targets are accounted for in the analysis presented in Chapter 5.From the target modeling, the scattering matrix elements are determined for planar, thin electric and magnetic dipoles embedded in a three-layer planar structure consisting of a chiral layer between free space and an isotropic ground. In addition, the full-wave equivalent circuit technique was efficiently utilized in the determination of the Green's functions of stratified structures.
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Caracterização de configurações para planos de terra e retorno de corrente em aeronaves não-metálicas

Marina Guimarães Sousa 22 June 2009 (has links)
A tendência atual aponta para a substituição gradativa do alumínio pelos materiais compostos. No entanto, apesar das vantagens de peso e rigidez, os materiais compostos apresentam algumas desvantagens em relação ao alumínio, principalmente no quesito características elétricas. Nesse contexto, este trabalho tem o intuito de avaliar soluções para o retorno da corrente de alimentação de equipamentos elétricos, para aeronaves construídas com fuselagem de material composto. Desta forma, os requisitos de redução de peso e rigidez seriam cumpridos, assim como aqueles requisitos referentes à alimentação e operação de equipamentos eletrônicos. Há também a preocupação em relação à proteção da aeronave com fuselagem de material composto contra raios, pois este material é mais susceptível a danos devido a impacto direto da corrente característica de raios que o metal. Foi considerada neste trabalho a potencialidade de uma estrutura metálica interna à fuselagem de composto ser atingida por um raio, após dano na estrutura, por ser muito mais condutiva. Assim, planos de retorno de corrente metálicos, internos à fuselagem de composto serão apresentados, e a forma de avaliação das estruturas indicadas será a sua resposta em relação à injeção de correntes de descargas atmosféricas, usando um programa de simulação de efeitos eletromagnéticos. A distribuição da corrente de uma descarga atmosférica ao longo da malha é importante para a proteção dos equipamentos internos - tanto em relação ao aumento momentâneo do pontencial do "terra" dos equipamentos aterrados, quanto em relação aos efeitos indiretos causados por esta corrente dentro da aeronave, ambos diretamente relacionados à amplitude e variação no tempo da corrente que passa por um ponto. Cada composição de elementos metálicos apresenta uma forma diferente de distribuir a corrente proveniente de uma descarga, a serem analisadas e comentadas no texto.

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