Electromagnetic modeling and experimental verification of a complete waveguide-based aperture-coupled patch amplifier array

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 801-804

  Yakovlev, Alexander B ^a   Ortiz, Sean ^a   Ozkar, Mete ^a   Mortazawi, Amir ^a   Steer, Michael B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER NETWORKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODEL; GENERALIZED SCATTERING MATRIX; MODE MATCHING ANALYSIS; PATCH AMPLIFIER ARRAY; SPATIAL POWER COMBINING ARRAY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROSTRIP LINES; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES; SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0033710005     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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