A UTD-OM technique to design slot arrays on a perfectly conducting paraboloid

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1688-1698

  Kaifas, Theodoros N ^a   Samaras, Theodoros ^a   Siakavara, Katherine ^a   Sahalos, John N ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Caustics; Conformal arrays; Diffraction theory; Mutual admittance; Orthogonal method (OM); Ray tracing; Slot arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; RAY TRACING;

CONFORMAL ARRAYS; DIFFRACTION THEORY; MUTUAL ADMITTANCE; ORTHOGONAL METHOD (OM); SLOT ARRAYS;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 19144367639     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.846791     Document Type: Article

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