Jeremy Harchelroad with Dr. Carey Buxton (FBI Academy)

Antenna Geometry and Behavior of Antennas Made of Low Conductance Material

Much research is done on antennas made of high conductance material, including measuring the radiation pattern and gain of antennas.  However, this project will investigate antennas made of materials with a low conductance, or lossy materials, concentrating on the effects that different antenna dimensions and geometries have on the behavior of the gain as a function of conductivity of an antenna for different antenna structures.  Numerical simulation methods such as finite difference time domain (FDTD) will be used to model the structure of the antenna, the propagation of electromagnetic (EM) waves, and the interactions between the antenna and the EM waves.