A reciprocity approach for calculating radiation patterns of arbitrarily shaped microstrip antennas mounted on circularly cylindrical platforms

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 730-738

  Werner, Douglas H ^a   Allard, Rene J ^a   Martin, Rodney A ^a   Mittra, Raj ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cylindrically conformal antennas; Microstrip antennas; Reciprocity

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; METHOD OF MOMENTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

RECIPROCITY;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0038115166     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.811558     Document Type: Article

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