The Spherical Near-Field Antenna Chamber

The Center is proud to provide a fully functional near-field antenna chamber for use by students, faculty, and industry members alike.

Such near-field measurements provides a fast and accurate method of determining antenna directivity, pattern, and polarization measurements in a single scan. Information such as the far-field pattern, antenna gain, antenna directivity, cross polarization level, beam width, beam pointing, phase center position, and defocusing can all be determined by post-processing of the near-field data.

The chamber is run by NSI 2000 Standard Edition software that is both simple to understand and use. In addition, technical assistance for both the hardware and software is available from the staff. The Center boasts open-ended waveguide probes ranging from 1GHz to 26.5GHz.

The chamber is available to all who are interested. Fees are determined by internal users and external users. The fee structure is found below:

External Users (Industry and private ventures): $1600 per day ($1200 for chamber usage and $400 technical service charge)