A Fast Analysis of Scattering and Radiation of Large Microstrip Antenna Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2218-2226

  Yuan, Ning ^a   Yeo, Tat Soon ^a   Nie, Xiao Chun ^b   Li, Le Wei ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Discrete complex image method; Microstrip antenna array; Precorrected fast Fourier transform (FFT) method; Scattering and radiation

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; VECTORS;

DISCRETE COMPLEX IMAGE METHOD;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0141638377     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.811082     Document Type: Article

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