Design of an improved profiled corrugated circular horn at 320ghz

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 387-396

  Lucci, Leonardo ^a   Nesti, Renzo ^b   Pelosi, Giuseppe ^a   Selleri, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES;

ANTENNA DESIGN; CORRUGATED CIRCULAR HORN; GAUSSIAN BEAM; GENERALIZED SCATTERING MATRIX; QUASI NEWTON METHOD;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 1342329743     PISSN: 09205071     EISSN: 15693937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156939304323085810     Document Type: Article

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