Equivalent Isotropic Response as a Surrogate for Incident Field Strength

Published

July 9, 2017

Author(s)

Dan Kuester, Duncan McGillivray, William F. Young, John M. Ladbury, Ari Feldman, Adam Wunderlich, Sheryl M. Genco

Abstract

The strength of a radiated field at some location in free space can be described in terms of the equivalent conducted output from an isotropic probe antenna with a specified reference polarization. This metric has already entered use by various standards, technical reports, and academic literature, but lacks an accepted name, and has not been studied or defined in detail by published work. We refer to the parameter here as equivalent isotropic incident power (EIIP). This article is a brief discussion of some basic properties of EIIP by relation with standard antenna and field strength parameters.

Proceedings Title

2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science
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Digest

Conference Dates

July 9-14, 2017

Conference Location

San Diego, CA, US

Conference Title

2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation

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Conferences

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Kuester, D. , McGillivray, D. , Young, W. , Ladbury, J. , Feldman, A. , Wunderlich, A. and Genco, S. (2017), Equivalent Isotropic Response as a Surrogate for Incident Field Strength, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting Digest, San Diego, CA, US, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=922673 (Accessed October 20, 2025)