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RF Sensor Performance in Electrically Large, Complex Environments

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N68335-07-C-0211
Agency Tracking Number: N071-023-0776
Amount: $79,878.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N07-023
Solicitation Number: 2007.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2007
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2007-03-16
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-09-16
Small Business Information
315 S. Allen St. Suite 222
State College, PA 16801
United States
DUNS: 945483733
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Joseph Schuster
 Technical Supervisor
 (814) 861-1299
 jws@remcom.com
Business Contact
 Raymond Luebbers
Title: President
Phone: (814) 861-1299
Email: rjl@remcom.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The radiation from antennas mounted on a geometrically complex platform, such as an aircraft, remains a challenging electromagnetics problem. Since military applications often require multiple antennas on the same platform, the analysis of interference is also important. It is difficult to use full wave electromagnetic solutions for such problems at high frequencies due to computer memory and computation time required. The best alternative is to use full wave methods only to analyze the antenna radiation characteristics, and to use the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction (GTD) to predict how energy propagates over the electrically large platform. A key advantage of GTD over other high frequency asymptotic methods is the accuracy with which it can model propagation along curved surfaces by means of surface diffracted rays, or creeping waves. The GTD also has the ability to combine creeping waves with diffractions and reflections from other features, such as the wings and stabilizers on aircraft. Another important is the memory and computation time does not increase with frequency, since the time to find the ray paths depends only on the complexity of the geometry not on the electrical size.

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