Title: On methods to determine bounds on the Q-factor for a given directivity,
Abstract: This paper revisit and extend the interesting case of bounds on the Q-factor
for a given directivity for a small antenna of arbitrary shape. A higher
directivity in a small antenna is closely connected with a narrow impedance
bandwidth. The relation between bandwidth and a desired directivity is still
not fully understood, not even for small antennas. Initial investigations in
this direction has related the radius of a circumscribing sphere to the
directivity, and bounds on the Q-factor has also been derived for a partial
directivity in a given direction. In this paper we derive lower bounds on the
Q-factor for a total desired directivity for an arbitrarily shaped antenna in a
given direction as a convex problem using semi-definite relaxation techniques
(SDR). We also show that the relaxed solution is also a solution of the
original problem of determining the lower Q-factor bound for a total desired
directivity.
SDR can also be used to relax a class of other interesting non-convex
constraints in antenna optimization such as tuning, losses, front-to-back
ratio. We compare two different new methods to determine the lowest Q-factor
for arbitrary shaped antennas for a given total directivity. We also compare
our results with full EM-simulations of a parasitic element antenna with high
directivity.