Radiation and scattering tradeoff design for conformal arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1069-1076

  Thors, Björn ^a   Josefsson, Lars ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Ericsson Microwave Systems AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conformal antenna; Moment methods; Radar cross section; UTD

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RADAR; WAVEGUIDES;

CONFORMAL ARRAYS;

ANTENNA RADIATION;

EID: 0037707123     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.811489     Document Type: Article

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