Study of high-efficiency corrugated hard-horn antennas using classical approaches: Hard circular waveguide mode, phase factor, and aperture integration

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 516-523

  Sotoudeh, Omid ^a   Kildal, Per Simon ^a   Sipus, Zvonimir ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Cluster fed multiple beam antenna feeds; Hard horn antennas

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CLUSTER-FED MULTIPLE-BEAM ANTENNA FEEDS; CROSS-POLARIZATION; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; FEED CLUSTERS;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 15544367215     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.20684     Document Type: Article

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