Soft and hard horn antennas
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Vol. 36 (8), 1152-1157
- https://doi.org/10.1109/8.7229
Abstract
Horn antennas with soft and hard boundaries are analyzed. A soft boundary which exists in classical hybrid-mode horns gives zero field intensity at the wall. A hard boundary corresponds to a uniform field distribution over the horn aperture. Soft and hard horn antennas are compared with respect to directivity, sidelobes, and beamwidth. The dependency between the edge taper directivity, and sidelobes is also calculated based on the solution to the spherical hybrid modes in a conical horn with arbitrary wall impedances. This makes it possible to study how to compromise between directivity and sidelobes. Also discussed is how the different wall impedances may be realized, and some preliminary experimental work on hard horns is presented.Keywords
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