A smooth-walled spline-profile horn as an alternative to the corrugated horn for wide band millimeter-wave applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 848-854

  Granet, Christophe ^a   Bolton, Russell ^a   Moorey, Graham ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cassegrain; Corrugated; Horn; Millimeter wave; Optimization; Reflector

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FREQUENCIES; MANUFACTURE; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES;

CORRUGATED HORN; DUAL REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; SMOOTH WALLED SPLINE PROFILE HORN;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 2442547478     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.825156     Document Type: Article

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