Gain and G/T of multielement receive antennas with active beamforming networks

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1818-1829

  Kraft, Ulrich R ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ANTENNA REFLECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; GAIN CONTROL; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

ACTIVE BEAMFORMING NETWORKS; MULTIFEED REFLECTOR ANTENNAS;

RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

EID: 0034462832     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.901270     Document Type: Article

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