Investigation of the mutual coupling between apertures on doubly curved convex surfaces: Theory and measurements

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 682-692

  Persson, Patrik ^a   Josefsson, Lars ^a,b   Lanne, Maria ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Ericsson Microwave Systems AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conformal antenna; Double curved surface; Geodesics; Method of moments (MoM); Mutual coupling; Uniform theory of diffraction (UTD)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIFFRACTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; WAVEGUIDES;

CONFORMAL ANTENNAS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038115178     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.811101     Document Type: Article

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