Relevance of coupling effects on DRA array design

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 399-404

  Gentili, Guido Biffi ^a   Morini, Marco ^a   Selleri, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antenna array; Dielectric resonator antenna; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Mutual coupling

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OPTICAL RESONATORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNAS (DRA);

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0038381443     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.809848     Document Type: Article

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