Planar Near-Field to Far-field Transformation Using an Array of Dipole Probes

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 534-537

  Petre, Peter ^a   Sarkar, Tapan K ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBES; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; DIPOLE PROBES; ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION; FAR FIELD ANTENNA PATTERNS; GALERKIN'S METHOD; MAGNETIC DIPOLES; MUTUAL COUPLING; NEAR FIELD ANTENNA PATTERNS; PLANAR SURFACE; TOEPLITZ STRUCTURE;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 0028408763     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.286223     Document Type: Article

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