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NeoScan for Antenna Characterization

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[[Image:NEOWEB11.png|thumb|450px|NeoScan field probe scanning the surface of a microstrip patch antenna at 2.4GHz.]]
[[NeoScan]] systems can be used as an essential tool for characterization, test and evaluation of antennas and phased array systems. It is a well-established fact that once you have an accurate estimate of the aperture fields, you can compute the far-field radiation patterns of an antenna with reasonable accuracy. This fact is based on the equivalence principle and the Huygens theory in electromagnetics. Time domain electromagnetic simulation tools such as [[EM.Tempo]] use a near-to-far-field transformation based on this principle to compute the far-zone fields of any radiating structure. In general, by far fields we mean the electric fields evaluated in the far zone of a physical structure, which satisfies the following condition: <math>r << \frac{2D^2}{\lambda_0}</math> where r is the distance between the observation and source points, &lambda;<sub>0</sub> is the free space wavelength and D is the largest dimension of the radiating structure.
Click here to learn more about the theory of '''[[Maxwell%27s_Equations#Computing_the_Far-Zone_Fields_from_Near-Zone_Data | Near-to-Far-Field Transformation]]'''.
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