On the characteristic impedance of the TEM horn antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 315-318

  Lee, R Todd ^a   Smith, Glenn S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic impedance; Transverse electromagnetic horn antenna

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GRAPHIC METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE; TRANSVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC HORN ANTENNA;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 1542285833     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.822448     Document Type: Article

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