Efficient analysis of arrays of rectangular corrugated horns: The synthetic aperture function approach

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 601-607

  Focardi, Paolo ^a   Freni, Angelo ^b   Maci, Stefano ^c   Vecchi, Giuseppe ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Array antennas; Horns; Mutual coupling

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HORN ANTENNAS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

MUTUAL COUPLING; RECTANGULAR CORRUGATED HORNS; SYNTHETIC APPERTURE FUNCTIONS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 13944262858     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.841332     Document Type: Article

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