The BiPolar Planar Near-field Measurement Technique, Part I: Implementation and Measurement Comparisons

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 184-195

  Williams, Lawrence I ^a,b   Rahmat Samii, Yahya ^a   Yaccarino, Robert G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; MEASUREMENTS;

BIPOLAR NEAR FIELD SCANNER; MEASUREMENT COMPARISONS; PLANE POLAR MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; POLARIZED FIELDS; UNIQUE HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 0028368391     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.277212     Document Type: Article

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