Planar Near-Field to Far-Field Transformation Using an Equivalent Magnetic Current Approach

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 1348-1356

  Petre, Peter ^a   Sarkar, Tapan K ^b  

^a Compact Software ^*  (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION; EQUIVALENT MAGNETIC CURRENT; FAR-FIELD TRANSFORMATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NEAR-FIELD MEASUREMENTS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 0026943082     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.202712     Document Type: Article

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