Improved radiation pattern performance of Gaussian profiled horn antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1505-1513

  Gonzalo, Ramón ^a   Teniente, Jorge ^a   Del Río, Carlos ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gaussian profiled horn antennas (GPHA); Microwave; Millimeter waves; Quasi optics

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICS; RADOMES;

GAUSSIAN PROFILED HORN ANTENNAS; QUASI-OPTICS;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 0036880084     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2002.804002     Document Type: Article

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