Uniform analytical representation of the continuous spectrum excited by dipole sources in a multilayer dielectric structure through weighted cylindrical leaky waves

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 653-665

  Baccarelli, Paolo ^a   Burghignoli, Paolo ^a   Frezza, Fabrizio ^a   Galli, Alessandro ^a   Lovat, Giampiero ^a   Jackson, David R ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous spectrum; Leaky waves; Leaky wave antennas; Multilayer structures; Transition regions

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; MULTILAYERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CYLINDRICAL LEAKY WAVES; MULTILAYER DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 2442438788     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.825099     Document Type: Article

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