The Static Electric Field Distribution Between Two Semi-Infinite Circular Cylinders: A Model for the Feed Gap Field of a Dipole Antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1987, Pages 1273-1280

  Do Nhat, Tam ^a   Macphie, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS, DIPOLE - ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; CYLINDERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

FOURIER-BESSEL EIGENFUNCTION SERIES; SEMI-INFINITE CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; STATIC ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASPHERICAL POLYNOMIALS;

ELECTROSTATICS;

EID: 0023669832     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1987.1144002     Document Type: Article

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