The Dielectric-Filled Parabola: A New Millimeter/Submillimeter Wavelength Receiver/Transmitter Front End

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 40-47

  Siegel, Peter H ^a   Dengler, Robert J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

DIELECTRIC FILLED PARABOLA; DIELECTRIC LENS ANTENNA; INTEGRATED ANTENNA; MICROWAVE TRANCEIVER FRONTEND; PARABOLIC REFLECTOR; PLANAR ANTENNA;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0025956475     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.64433     Document Type: Article

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