Performance of an array of circular waveguides with strip-loaded dielectric hard walls

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1106-1114

  Skobelev, Sergei P ^a,b   Kildal, Per Simon ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Joint Stock Company Radiophyzika   (Russian Federation)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; STRIP TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

ASYMPTOTIC STRIP BOUNDARY CONDITION; FLOQUET HARMONICS; FREQUENCY BAND; MODE MATCHING METHOD; STRIP LOADED DIELECTRIC HARD WALLS; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC MODES; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC MODES;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0034217249     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.876330     Document Type: Article

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