Theoretical Analysis of a Wall-Mounted Broadband Antenna for Source Stirred Reverberation Chambers

This paper is based on the analytical formulation of a method for predicting the electromagnetic field radiated by a wire antenna placed in a reverberation chamber. The antenna is discretized by a series of oblique segments. After verifying this assumption using full-wave numerical simulations, the proposed model is applied to a broadband antenna designed for a multiple antenna source stirred reverberation standard. The model can be used to analyze the performance of the chamber with respect to a number of indicators. This analysis has been extended to the entire frequency range in which the chamber has been experimentally characterized.