Radiation of an aperture antenna covered by a spherical-shell chiral radome and fed by a circular waveguide

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 664-671

  Li, Le Wei ^a   Leong, Mook Seng ^a   Kooi, Pang Shyan ^a   Yeo, Tat Soon ^a   Qiu, You Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aperture antennas; Chiral media; Dielectric radome; Dyadic green's function; Electromagnetic wave theory

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; RADOMES; VECTORS;

APERTURE ANTENNAS; CHIRAL MEDIA; HUYGEN'S EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE; IMAGE THEORY;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 0032073453     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.668909     Document Type: Article

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