Sub-structure characteristic mode computation utilising field-based MM/GTD hybrid methods

Abstract

It is pointed out how the (sub-structure) characteristic modes of a perfect electrically conducting (PEC) object, in the presence of an electrically very large second PEC object, can be computed using a field-based hybrid method that combines the method of moments (MM) and the geometrical theory of diffraction (GTD). An example is provided to demonstrate this. This possibility has not yet been explicitly stated elsewhere (and so perhaps not realised), nor example computations provided. We believe this realisation might widen the scope of application of characteristic mode analysis.