Electromagnetic Performance Analysis of a Novel Monolithic Radome for Airborne Applications

Abstract

A monolithic half-wave hybrid variable thickness radome ( <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">hy-VTR</i> ) is proposed here for airborne applications. The 3-D ray-tracing (in conjunction with aperture integration method), which is adapted here to evaluate the radome performance parameters, facilitates efficient analysis of antenna-radome interactions. The optimized power reflection <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">hy-VTR</i> design is established to be superior to the conventional constant thickness radome (CTR) designs in terms of the EM performance.