A High Gain YBCO Antenna Array with Integrated Feed and Balun

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 3199-3202

  Ivrissimtzis, Leonidas P ^a   Lancaster, Michael J ^a   Alford, Neil McN ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ESTIMATION; OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS; PERFORMANCE; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

BALUN; DIPOLES; METHOD OF MOMENTS; SUPERDIRECTIVITY; SUPERGAIN;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0029327552     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: 15582515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.403272     Document Type: Article

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