Efficient calculation of the fields of a dipole radiating above an impedance surface

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1222-1235

  Sarabandi, Kamal ^a   Casciato, Mark D ^a   Koh, Il Suek ^a  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Dipole antennas; Impedance boundary conditions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OSCILLATIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSCEIVERS; GEOMETRY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

IMPEDANCE SURFACES; APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; ARBITRARY ORIENTATION; ASYMPTOTIC EXPRESSIONS; IMPEDANCE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; INFINITESIMAL DIPOLES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SCATTERING PROBLEMS; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS;

RADIO TRANSMISSION; COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 0036761230     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2002.7054733     Document Type: Article

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