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Near-Field Antenna Measurement Techniques

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A complete description of the near-field antenna measurement techniques is provided in this chapter. After a discussion of the state of the art, the key steps of the classical near-field–far-field (NF-FF) transformations with plane-rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical scannings, in their probe-uncompensated and probe-compensated versions, are summarized, by also providing some analytical details on the wave expansions commonly adopted to represent the antenna radiated field. The nonredundant sampling representations of electromagnetic field are then introduced and applied to drastically reduce the number of required NF data and related measurement time with respect to the classical NF-FF transformations. At last, the NF-FF transformations with innovative spiral scannings, allowing a further measurement time saving, are described.

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Ferrara, F., Gennarelli, C., Guerriero, R. (2016). Near-Field Antenna Measurement Techniques. In: Chen, Z., Liu, D., Nakano, H., Qing, X., Zwick, T. (eds) Handbook of Antenna Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-44-3_117

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