Analysis and measurements of conformal patch array antennas on multilayer circular cylinder

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1105-1113

  Raffaelli, Silvia ^a   Sipus, Zvonimir ^b,c   Kildal, Per Simon ^c  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conformal antennas; Cylindrical arrays; Method of moments; Microstrip antennas; Mutual coupling

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

CONFORMAL ANTENNAS; CYLINDRICAL ARRAYS; MUTUAL COUPLING; PATCH ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 16344396469     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.841337     Document Type: Article

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