Pyramidal Horn Gain Calculation with Improved Accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 1993, Pages 884-889

  Maybell, Michael J ^a   Simon, Peter S ^a  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR DETECTION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

APERTURE QUADRATIC PHASE ERROR; PATH LENGTH ERROR; PYRAMIDAL HORN GAIN CALCULATION;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 0027634691     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.237618     Document Type: Article

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