Theoretical study on measurement accuracy of rotating element electric field vector (REV) method

Electronics and Communications in Japan, Part I: Communications (English translation of Denshi Tsushin Gakkai Ronbunshi)

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-33

  Takahashi, Toru ^a,b,c   Miyashita, Hiroaki ^a,c,d,e,f   Konishi, Yoshihiko ^a,c,d   Makino, Shigeru ^a,c,d  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Institute of Electrical Engineers of   (Japan)

^c IEEE   (Japan)

^d Information Technology R and D Center   (Japan)

^e AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

^f AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitation amplitude and phase error; Measurement accuracy; Phased array antenna; Probabilistic analysis; Rotating element electric field vector method

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION AMPLITUDE AND PHASE ERRORS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; ROTATING ELEMENT ELECTRIC FIELD VECTOR METHODS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 27144518182     PISSN: 87566621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecja.20239     Document Type: Article

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