Application of Incremental Length Diffraction Coefficients to Calculate the Pattern Effects of the Rim and Surface Cracks of a Reflector Antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 1-11

  Shore, Robert A ^a   Yaghjian, Arthur D ^a  

^a Electromagnetics Directorate RL/ERCT ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION; FURTHER-OUT SIDELOBES; INCREMENTAL LENGTH DIFFRACTION COEFICIENTS (ILDCS); METHOD OF MOMENTS; NONUNIFORM CURRENT FAR FIELDS; PARABOLOID REFLECTORS; PATTERN EFFECT CALCULATION; SURFACE CRACKS;

ANTENNA REFLECTORS;

EID: 0027308050     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.210108     Document Type: Article

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