Optimum design of feed structures for high g it passive and active antenna arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 443-452

  Demir, Simsek ^a   Toker, Canan ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Feeds

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NETWORKS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA RADIATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TEMPERATURE;

ACTIVE ELEMENTS; FEED STRUCTURES; NOISE EQUIVALENT LINE LENGTH;

ANTENNA FEEDERS;

EID: 0032673776     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.768778     Document Type: Article

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