An Analysis of Electrically Large Planar Dipole Antenna Arrays with an Efficient Hybrid MSMM/CG Method

Abstract

In this paper, an efficient hybrid method is proposed for solving electrically large planar dipole antenna arrays in free space. The hybrid method appropriately combines the multiple sweep method of moments (MSMM) and conjugate gradient (CG) method, called hybrid MSMM/CG method, yielding better convergence rate compared with the conventional MSMM and CG method. Two examples of 21× 21 uniform and 24× 24 non-uniform planar dipole antenna arrays are analyzed. Results show that the hybrid MSMM/CG method converges rapidly compared to the conventional methods. In addition, the current distributions and radiation patterns computed by using the hybrid MSMM/CG method are in excellent agreement with those obtained from the standard method of moments (MM). It is found that the hybrid MSMM/CG method is very efficient and accurate for electrically large planar dipole antenna arrays in free space.