Theory and measurement of the field of a pyramidal horn

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1488-1498

  Nye, John F ^a   Liang, Wenlie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTRON DEVICE TESTING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

EDGE WAVE DIFFRACTION THEORY; MODULATED SCATTERER METHOD; NEAR FIELD MEASUREMENT; PYRAMIDAL MICROWAVE HORN; SOMMERFIELD SOLUTION;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 0030287175     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.542074     Document Type: Article

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