Main-beam polarization properties of four-element sequential-rotation arrays with arbitrary radiators

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 515-522

  Kraft, Ulrich R ^a  

^a AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; ANTENNA RADIATION; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIZATION;

ANTENNA ELEMENTS; HELIX ANTENNAS; SEQUENTIAL ROTATION ARRAYS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0030127903     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.489303     Document Type: Article

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