Design Trades for Rotman Lenses

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 464-472

  Hansen, R C ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS - ARRAYS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - GEOMETRY;

AMPLITUDE ERRORS; GEOMETRIC LENS EQUATION; MULTIPLE-BEAM ANTENNAS; PHASE ERRORS; ROTMAN LENS;

MAGNETIC LENSES;

EID: 0026139255     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.81458     Document Type: Article

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