Design of a 5 : 1 bandwidth stripline notch array from FDTD analysis

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1733-1740

  Kragalott, Mark ^a,b   Pickles, William R ^a,b   Kluskens, Michael S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Element coupling; FDTD; Phased arrays; Stripline antenna; Wide band arrays

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

BANDWIDTH STRIPLINE NOTCH ARRAYS; ELEMENT COUPLING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; STRIPLINE ANTENNA; WIDE BAND ARRAYS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0034313132     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.900231     Document Type: Article

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