On the dispersive properties of the conical spiral antenna and its use for pulsed radiation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1426-1433

  Hertel, Thorsten W ^a,b   Smith, Glenn S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TIME DOMAIN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband antenna; Conical spiral antenna; Dispersion; Pulse radiation

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONICAL SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA RADIATION;

EID: 0041663571     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.813602     Document Type: Article

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