Toward Standard Figures-of-Merit for Spatial and Quasi-Optical Power-Combined Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 1614-1617

  Gouker, Mark ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC LOSSES; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSMITTERS;

EFFECTIVE TRANSMITTER POWER; FIGURES OF MERIT; POWER COMBINED ARRAYS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0029343884     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.392925     Document Type: Article

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