Abstract
An efficient method is presented to take into account the radiation pattern deformation due to the presence of a finite ground plane lying under an antenna array and above a layered dielectric medium. The interactions between the antennas and the ground plane are computed using two main algorithms: on one hand, the near-field interactions are carried out using inhomogeneous plane waves, and on the other hand, a new formulation based on an analytical Hankel transform is derived to handle the intermediate-field interactions. This formulation expresses the electric field as a finite series of Hankel functions and associated Anger–Weber functions. The method is validated here for the second version of the square kilometer array (SKA) log-periodic Antenna (SKALA2) and then applied to an SKA low-frequency station (SKA1-LOW).
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