Artificially Soft and Hard Surfaces in Electromagnetics

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 1990, Pages 1537-1544

  Kildal, Per Simon ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS, HORN; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES--POLARIZATION; OPTICS--GEOMETRICAL;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED WAVE; CORRUGATED HORN ANTENNAS; LONGITUDINAL CORRUGATIONS; RADIATION FIELDS; SOFT BOUNDARY;

ELECTROMAGNETISM;

EID: 0025508938     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.59765     Document Type: Article

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