Exact EM field excited by a short horizontal wire antenna lying on a conducting soil

To date, only under restrictive assumptions can we derive closed-form expressions for the fields generated by an electrically small horizontal wire antenna situated on a planar conducting soil. Such assumptions limit the validity of the derived formulas to specified frequency ranges, or to the case of highly-conducting material media. The purpose of this work is to relax all the constraints underlying the derivation of the previously published solutions to this half-space problem, and develop an analytical technique that allows to reduce the integral representations for the field components generated by the dipole source to a well-known elementary contour integral, whose evaluation is straightforward. Numerical results are presented to show the advantages of the obtained explicit formulas, which are valid regardless of the operating frequency, over the previous solutions. (C) 2016 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.