Analysis of dielectric resonator antenna excited by a slot at the waveguide shorted end

Hemispherical dielectric resonator (HDR) antenna excited with a slot at the short circuited end of waveguide is analyzed theoretically and verified experimentally. The analysis is based on numerical solution of coupled integral equations discretized using the method of moments (MoM). The HDR is modeled using exact magnetic field Green's function because of the equivalent magnetic current in the slot. The field inside the waveguide is expressed in terms of modal vectors and modal functions. For the analysis of HDR antenna part, the modal series is represented as a sum of particular and homogeneous solutions. The particular solution is computed efficiently using spectral domain approach. The scattering parameter for the HDR antenna loaded at the waveguide end slot is calculated and compared with measured and finite element method (FEM) results. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 1356–1359, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23382