Optimum design of tapered slot antenna profile

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1987-1995

  Oraizi, Homayoon ^a   Jam, Shahrokh ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION;

TAPERED SLOT ANTENNAS (TSA);

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 0042864756     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.811090     Document Type: Article

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