Mode-matching modeling of a hard conical quasi-TEM horn realized by an EBG structure with strips and vias

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 139-143

  Skobelev, Sergei P ^a,b   Kildal, Per Simon ^b  

^a Joint Stock Company Radiophyzika   (Russian Federation)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antenna feeds; Electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) surfaces; Hard surfaces; Horn antennas; Mode matching

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP (EBG) SURFACES; HARD SURFACES; MODE MATCHING; WINER-HOPF-WEINSTEIN METHOD;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 13244251100     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.840417     Document Type: Article

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