Triangular ray-tube analysis of dielectric lens antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1277-1285

  Chan, Kwok Kee ^a,b   Rao, Sudhakar K ^c,d   Morin, Gilbert A ^a,b   Tang, Minh Q ^c,d  

^a Chan Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b L 3 Communications SPAR Aerospace Limited   (Canada)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^d DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lens antennas

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; INTEGRATION; INTERPOLATION; VECTORS;

DIELECTRIC LENS ANTENNAS; TRIANGULAR RAY TUBE ANALYSIS;

ANTENNA REFLECTORS;

EID: 0031212639     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.611248     Document Type: Article

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