Design of resistively loaded vee dipole for ultrawide-band ground-penetrating radar applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 8 I, 2005, Pages 2525-2532

  Kim, Kangwook ^a,b   Scott Jr , Waymond R ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dipole antennas; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Loaded antennas; Ultrawide band (UWB) antennas

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FOAMED PLASTICS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POLYSTYRENES; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RESISTORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

LOADED ANTENAS; POLYSTYRENE FOAM; ULTRAWIDE-BAND (UWB) ANTENNAS; VOLTAGE STANDING WAVE RATIO;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 27644461044     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.852292     Document Type: Article

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