Ultra-wideband transmitter research

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 860-873

  Agée, Forrest J ^a   Baum, Carl E ^a   Prather, William D ^a   Lehr, Jane M ^b   O'Loughlin, James P ^b   Burger, Jeffrey W ^b   Schoenberg, Jon S H ^b   Scholfield, David W ^a   Torres, Robert J ^a   Hull, Jonathan P ^a   Gaudet, John A ^a,b  

^a AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brewster angle window; gas switch; high power microwave; impulse radiating antenna; oil switch; photoconductive solid state switch; radio frequency lens; silicon avalanche shaper; spark gap switch; transient antenna; ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; AVALANCHE DIODES; ELECTRIC SPARK GAPS; PULSE GENERATORS;

BREWSTER ANGLE WINDOWS; ULTRAWIDEBAND (UWB) PULSES;

RADAR TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 0032095052     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.700855     Document Type: Article

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