Time-domain near-field analysis of short-pulse antennas-part I: spherical wave (multipole) expansion

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 271-279

  Shlivinski, Amir ^a   Heyman, E ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antenna theory; Near field; Short pulse electromagnetics; Time domain analysis

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

CIRCULAR CURRENT DISK; MULTIPOLE EXPANSION; SHORT PULSE ANTENNAS; TIME DEPENDENT SOURCE DISTRIBUTION;

ANTENNA RADIATION;

EID: 0032675948     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.761066     Document Type: Article

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