GIT maximization of a paraboloidal reflector fed by a dipole-disk antenna with ring by using the multiple-reflection approach and the moment method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1130-1139

  Kildal, Per Simon ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Reflector antennas

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ESTIMATION; MIRRORS; OPTIMIZATION;

DIPOLE DISK ANTENNA; PRIMARY FED PARABOLOIDAL REFLECTOR;

ANTENNA FEEDERS;

EID: 0031191624     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.596904     Document Type: Article

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