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Technical Papers
NSI personnel and NSI customers have presented a wide variety of technical papers at trade shows and academic venues for many years. Below are some of the papers presented.
For an authoritative text on practical near-field measurements, order Dan Slater's book, "Near-Field Antenna Measurements".
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| 1985 | Inverse Synthetic Aperture Imaging Radar (pdf) | Dan Slater | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1985 | Near Field Test Facility Design (pdf) | Dan Slater | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1988 | Error
Analysis Techniques for Planar Near-field Measurements |
Allen C. Newell | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation |
| 1988 | Gain and EIRP Measurements | Allen C. Newell | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation |
| 1988 | Accurate Determination of Planar Near-field Correction Parameters for Linearly Polarized Probes (3mb Adobe Acrobat File) | Allen C. Newell | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1989 | A Low Cost Portable Near-Field Antenna Measurement System (pdf) | Dan Slater Greg Hindman |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1989 | Error Suppression Techniques for Near-Field Antenna Measurements (pdf) | Greg Hindman Dan Slater |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1989 | Hand Held Microwave Reflectometer (pdf) | Dan Slater Greg Hindman |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1991 | Applications of Portable Near-Field Antenna Measurement Systems (pdf) | Greg Hindman | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1991 | A Hilbert Transform Based Receiver Post Processor (pdf) | Dan Slater | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1991 | Probe - Correction Coefficients Derived From Near-Field Measurements (pdf) | Gregory F. Masters | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1992 | Anechoic Chamber Diagnostic Imaging (pdf) | Greg Hindman Dan Slater |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1992 | Evaluating Near-Field Range Multi-Path (pdf) | Gregory F. Masters | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1993 | Implementation of a 22' x 22' Planar Near-Field System for Satellite Antenna Measurements (pdf) | Greg Hindman Gregory F. Masters |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1993 | An Automated Test Sequencer for High Volume Near-Field Measurements (pdf) | Greg Hindman Dan Slater |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1993 | Considerations for Upgrading a Pre-existing Near-Field System (pdf) | Jeff Way | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1994 | Planar Near-field
Measurements of Low-side lobe Antennas (4mb Adobe Acrobat File) |
Allen Newell |
Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| 1994 | 550 Ghz Near-Field Antenna Measurement System for NASA Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (pdf) | Dan Slater | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1994 | A Low Cost Spherical Near-Field System (pdf) | Jeff Way Karl Haner |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1994 | Position Correction on Large Near-Field Scanners Using an Optical Tracking System (pdf) | Greg Hindman | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1994 | Anechoic Chamber Evaluation (pdf) | Karl Haner | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1994 | Three Antenna Gain Method on a Near-Field Range (pdf) | W. G. Scott Gregory F. Masters |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1994 | Dan Slater | IEEE EMC Conference | |
| 1995 | Hologram Accuracy Estimation (pdf) | Gregory F. Masters | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1995 | A Portable 4.5m X 2.0M Near-Field Scanner (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | David S. Fooshe | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1995 | State-of-the-art Near-field Measurement System (pdf) | Karl Haner Gregory F. Masters |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1996 | Globalstar Satellite Near-Field Measurement Systems (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | Greg Hindman | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1996 | Automated Eirp Measurements On A Near-Field Range (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | Gregory F. Masters Ron Young |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1996 | HSC's New Near-Field Measurement Facility | Jeff Way | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1996 | Calibration and Diagnostics of the THAAD Solid State Phased Array in a Planar Near-field Facility | Joseph K. Mulcahey Michael G. Sarcione |
IEEE Paper |
| 1997 | The Alignment of a Spherical Near-Field Rotator using Electrical Measurements (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | Allen C. Newell Greg Hindman |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1997 | The Implementation of a Spherical Near-Field Measurement System in Mainland China (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | Greg Hindman Hanjian Wei-Bin Ye |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1997 | Cylindrical Near-Field Measurement of L-Band Antennas (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | John Chenoweth Terrance Speicher |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1997 | A Turnkey Near-field Measurement System For Pulse Mode Applications (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | David S. Fooshe Kenneth Thompson Matt Harvey |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1997 | A Large Combination Horizontal and Vertical Near-Field Measurement Facility for Satellite Antenna Characterization (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | John Demas | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1997 | Innovative Mechanical Designs For Scanners (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | John Demas Terrance Speicher |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1998 | 33m by 16m Near-field Measurement System (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | Terrance Speicher Sevtap Sapmaz Michiharu Niwata |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1998 | Precision Boresight Measurement for Doppler Radar (pdf) | Vern Moore Bert Schluper |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1998 | Design And Validation Of A General Purpose Near-Field Antenna Measurement Facility For The Royal Netherlands Navy (pdf) | Mart Hagenbeek Daniël Janse van Rensburg |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1998 | Phased-Array Simulation For Antenna Test Range Design (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | Daniël Janse van Rensburg | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1998 | Probe Correction Effects On Planar, Cylindrical And Spherical Near-Field Measurements (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | Greg Hindman David S. Fooshe |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1998 | Quantifying The Effect Of Position Errors In Spherical Near-Field Measurements (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | Allen C. Newell Greg Hindman |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1998 | Spherical Coordinate Systems For Defining Directions And Polarization Componets In Antenna Measurements (pdf) | Allen C. Newell | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1998 | ICO S-Band Antennas Test Program | Peter A. Ilott Robert Hladek Charles Liu Bradford Arnold |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1999 | A Technique to Evaluate the Impact of Flex Cable Phase Instability on mm-Wave Planar Near-field Measurement Accuracies | Daniël Janse van Rensburg | ESA ESTEC Workshop on Antenna Measurements |
| 1999 | The Effect Of Measurement Geometry On Alignment Errors In Spherical Near-Field Measurements | Allen C. Newell Greg Hindman Carl Stubenrauch |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1999 | Extending The Angular Coverage Of Planar Near-Field Mearsurements By Combining Patterns From Two Or More Antenna Orientations (Slide Presentation) | Allen C. Newell Greg Hindman |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1999 | Digital Receiver Technology for High-Speed Near-field Antenna Measurements (Slide Presentation) (pdf) | David S. Fooshe Dan Slater |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 1999 | 14' x 14' Portable Planar Near-Field Scanner System (PPNFSS) For The Aegis Array (pdf) | George Mc Adams Richard Romanchuk |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2000 | How To Specify An RF System for Antenna Measurements (Slide Presentation) | David S. Fooshe Michael Schultz |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2000 | Digital Beam-Forming Antenna Range (Slide Presentation) | David S. Fooshe Masahiro Tanabe |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2000 | Application of the NIST 18 Term Error Model to Cylindrical Near-Field Antenna Measurements | Allen C. Newell David Lee |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2000 | RAYTHEON 23' x 22' 50GHZ PULSE SYSTEM | Terrance Speicher Angelo Puzella Joseph K. Mulcahey |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2000 | TRW's New Near-Field Measurement Facility | Jeff Way David S. Fooshe |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2000 | The Impact Of Alignment Errors On Cylindrical Near-Field Antenna Measurements (Slide Presentation) | Allen C. Newell Daniël Janse van Rensburg Mart Hagenbeek |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2001 | A Large Aperture 650 GHz Near-Field Measurement System for the Earth Observing System Microwave Limb Sounder (Slide Presentation) | Dan Slater Paul Stek Rick Cofield Robert Dengler Jack Hardy Robert Jarnot Ray Swindlehurt |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2001 | Limitations of Near-Field Back Projection For Phased Array Tuning Applications (Slide Presentation) | Daniël Janse van Rensburg | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2001 | Error Analysis Of Circular-Polarization Components Synthesized from Linearly Polarized Measurements (Slide Presentation) | Pieter N. Betjes | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2001 | Planar Near-Field Gain Measurements to Verify Calibration of Probes and Gain Standards (Slide Presentation) | Allen C. Newell |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2001 | Holographic Projection to an Arbitrary Plane from Sperical Near-Field Measurements (Slide Presentation) | Allen C. Newell Bert Schlüper Robert J. Davis |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2001 | Novel Spherical Near-field Antenna Measurement Techniques Advance State-Of-The Art (Slide Presentation) | A. Ray Howland,P.E. |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2002 | Near-field Antenna Measurement - Theory I - Planar (pdf) (Slide Presentation) | Allen C. Newell |
AMTA Educational Seminar 2002 |
| 2002 | Near-Field Antenna Measurement - Theory II - Cylindrical (pdf) (Slide Presentation) | Allen C. Newell |
AMTA Educational Seminar 2002 |
| 2002 | Near-Field Antenna Measurement - Theory III - Spherical (pdf) (Slide Presentation) | Allen C. Newell |
AMTA Educational Seminar 2002 |
| 2002 | How To Choose an Antenna Range Configuration (Slide Presentation) | Donnie Gray |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2002 | Correcting Dual Port Probe's Port-To-Port Calibration Using Near-Field Measurements (Slide Presentation) | Allen C. Newell |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2002 | Estimating Z-Position Errors in Planar Near-Field Measurements from RF Measurements (Slide Presentation) | Allen C. Newell |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2002 | Method to Estimate and Reduce Leakage Bias Errors in Planar Near-Field Antenna Measurements (Slide Presentation) | Allen Newell Jeff Guerrieri Katie MacReynolds |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2002 | Implementation of Back Projection on a Spherical Near-field Range (pdf) | Daniël Janse van Rensburg (NSI) |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2003 | Evaluation of Radome Performance from Cylindrical Near-Field Measurements (Slide Presentation) | W.C. Dixon |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2003 | Measurement of the Earth-Observer-1 Satellite X-Band Phase Array (Slide Presentation) | Kenneth Perko |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2003 | Upgraded Planar Near-Field Test Range for Large Space Flight Reflector Antennas Testing from L to Ku-Band (Slide Presentation) | Laurent Roux |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2003 | Antenna Alignment in a Near-field Facility(pdf) | Mart Hagenbeek Arnold R.Boomstra (Royal Netherlands Navy) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2003 | Estimating the Ucertainties Due to Position Errors in Spherical Near-Field Measurements |
Allen C. Newell, Daniël Janse van Rensburg |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2004 | Panther receiver reviewed in Microwave Journal | David S. Fooshe | Microwave Journal, January 2004 |
| 2004 | An Automated Cylindrical
Near-field Measurement and Analysis System for Radome
Characterization (pdf) |
Matthew Giles (CSA), Shantnu Mishra (CSA) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2004 | Spherical Near-Field Self-Comparison Measurements(pdf)(Slide Presentation) | Greg Hindman Allen C. Newell |
Antenna Measurement Techniques
Association Conference |
| 2004 | Scan Plane Reduction Techniques For Planar Near-Field Antenna Measurements(pdf) (AMTA 2004 Best Paper!) |
Daniël Janse van Rensburg | Antenna Measurement Techniques
Association Conference |
| 2004 | Estimating the Uncertainties Due to Truncation in Planar Near-Field Holograms(pdf) | Allen C. Newell |
Antenna Measurement Techniques
Association Conference |
| 2004 | A Low Cost and High Accuracy Optical Boresighting and Alignment System Using Video Cameras (pdf)(Slide Presentation) | John Demas Quy Phan |
Antenna Measurement Techniques
Association Conference |
| 2004 | Parametric Study of Angular and Radial Probe Positioning Errors in a Large Spherical Near-field Automotive Antenna Test System(pdf) |
Daniël Janse van Rensburg | ANTEMO4 Conference |
| 2005 | Low
Cost and High Accuracy Alignment Methods for Cylindrical and
Spherical Near-field Measurement Systems (PDF) (Slide Presentation) |
John Demas |
Antenna Measurement Techniques
Association Conference |
| 2005 | 3D Antenna Measurement System - Low Gain Antenna Measurements and CTIA OTA Testing (PDF) (Slide Presentation) | Donald J. Gray |
Antenna Measurement Techniques
Association Conference |
| 2005 | Reflection Suppression in Large Spherical Near-field Range (PDF) (Slide Presentation) | Greg Hindman |
Antenna Measurement Techniques
Association Conference |
| 2005 | A Hemi-Spherical Nearfield System for Automotive Antenna Testing (PDF) (Slide Presentation) | Pieter N. Betjes |
Antenna Measurement Techniques
Association Conference |
| 2006 | Reflection Suppression To Improve Anechoic Chamber Performance (PDF) | Greg Hindman, Allen C. Newell (NSI) |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Europe Conference |
| 2006 | An Introduction to Mobile Station Over-the-Air Measurements (PDF) | Greg Masters (NSI) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Europe Conference |
| 2006 | Full
Sphere Far-Field Antenna Patterns Obtained Using A Small Planar
Scanner and a Poly-Planar Measurement Technique (pdf) (An AMTA 2006 Best Paper!) |
Stuart F. Gregson (NSI), |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2006 | Improving Automation for
Antenna Ranges (pdf) |
David S. Fooshe (NSI) |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2006 | Traditional Antenna Measurements and CTIA OTA Measurments - Merging the Technologies (pdf) | Donald J. Gray (NSI), |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2006 | Simplified Spherical
Near-Field Accuracy Assessment |
Greg Hindman, |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2006 | On the Impact
of Non-Rectangular Two Dimensional Near-Field Filter Functions
in Planar Near-Field Antenna Measurements (pdf) |
Daniel Janse van Rensburg (NSI) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2006 | Reducing Measurement Time and Estimated Uncertainties
for the NIST 18 Term Error Technique (pdf) |
Allen C. Newell (NSI) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2006 | Time Domain Planar Near Field Measurement Simulation (pdf) |
SHEN XianJun & CHEN Xu (Hefei) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2006 | Design of Dielectric Probe for Near-field
Measurement (pdf presentation) |
Qian Qiaoyuan & Wen Mo (Shanghai Spaceflight Institute) | AMTA Europe Conference |
| 2007 | The
Use of Statistical Image Classification as a Convergence
Criteria in Phaseless Near-Field Antenna Measurements |
Stuart
F. Gregson (NSI), John McCormick (SELEX SAS), Clive G. Parini (Queen Mary University of London) |
Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2007 | An Algorithm
for Automated Phase Center Determination and its Implementation (pdf) |
Pieter N. Betjes (NSI) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2007 | Planar
and Spherical Near-Field Range Comparison with -60 dB Residual
Error Level (pdf) |
Allen C. Newell, Greg Hindman (NSI) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2007 | Next Generation
Phase Coherent Instrumentation Receiver (pdf) |
Dan Slater (NSI) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2007 | A Comparison
of Measurements on a Dual-Receiver Antenna Range (pdf) |
Masahiro Tanabe (TOSHIBA Corporation), David S. Fooshe (NSI) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2007 | EHF Rotman
Lens Fed Linear Array Multibeam Planar Near-Field Range Measurements (pdf) |
Mike Maybell (Planet Earth Communications LLC), John Demas (NSI) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2007 | Coordinate
System Plotting for Antenna Measurements (pdf) |
Gregory F. Masters, Stuart F. Gregson (NSI) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2007 | Mission
to MARS - In Search of Antenna Pattern Craters (pdf) |
Greg Hindman, Allen C. Newell (NSI) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2007 | Design,
Alignment, and Calibration Requirements for a Submillimeter Wave Frequency Tiltable Lightweight Scanner (pdf) |
Peter W. Bond (NSI), G. A. Ediss (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Conference |
| 2007 | Fast
and Accurate Antenna Alignment Correction Performed Using
A Vector Isometric Rotation |
Stuart
F. Gregson (NSI) Clive G. Paranini (QMU) John McCormick (Selex SAS) |
Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Confererence |
| 2007 | An
Investigation of Adaptive Acquisition Techniques for Planar
Near-field Measurements |
G.
Parsons (Univ of Ottawa) D.A. McNamara (Univ of Ottawa) Daniel Janse van Rensburg (NSI) |
IEEE APS Confererence |
| 2007 | Estimation of Radiated Power Density from a Large-scale Phase Arrray Antenna using FEKO | Masahiro
Tanabe and Yasuhara Masuda (Toshiba Corp.) |
23rd Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES) |
| 2007 | Histogram Equalisation as a Method For Making an Objective Comparison Between Antenna Pattern Functions | Stuart
F. Gregson (NSI) John McCormick (Selex SAS) Clive G. Paranini (QMU) |
The Second European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2007) 11-16 November 2007 |
| 2007 | Limitations of Spherical Near-field Back Projection For Phased Array Tuning Applications | Daniel
Janse van Rensburg (NSI) |
URSI Conference, Ottawa Canada, July 2007 |
| 2007 | Techniques For Reducing The Effect of Measurement Errors in Near-field Antenna Measurements | Greg
Hindman, Allen C. Newell (NSI) |
The Second European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2007) 11-16 November 2007 |
| 2008 | An Overview of Near-Field Sub-millimeter Wave Antenna Test Applications(pdf) | Daniel
Janse van Rensburg, Greg Hindman (NSI) |
COMITE
Conference, Czech Republic, 23-24 April 2008 (An Invited Paper) |
| 2008 | Scattering Reduction in Spherical Near-field Measurements(pdf) | Allen
C. Newell,
Greg Hindman (NSI) |
IEEE AP-S/URSI Conference, 5-12 July 2008 |