A field picture of wave propagation in inhomogeneous dielectric lenses

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 9-17

  Greenwood, Andrew D ^a   Jin, Jian Ming ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric lens; Finite element method; Radiation; Scattering; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LENSES;

DIELECTRIC LENSES; EATON-LIPPMANN LENSE; LUNEBURG LENSE; MAXWELL FISH EYE LENSE; SCATTERING PATTERNS;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033352741     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/74.801510     Document Type: Article

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