The Receiving Antenna as a Linear Differential Operator: Application to Spherical Near-Field Scanning

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 1985, Pages 1175-1185

  Yaghjian, Arthur D ^a   Wittmann, Ronald C ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0001152638     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1985.1143520     Document Type: Article

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