Blindness removal in arrays of rectangular waveguides using dielectrically loaded hard walls

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 546-550

  Skobelev, Sergei P ^a   Kildal, Per Simon ^b  

^a Joint Stock Company Radiophyzika   (Russian Federation)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

BLINDNESS REMOVAL; DIELECTRICALLY LOADED HARD WALLS;

RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032047499     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.664119     Document Type: Article

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