An Overview of Near-Field Antenna Measurements

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 30-45

  Yaghjian, Arthur D ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0022530128     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1986.1143727     Document Type: Article

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