A study of aspect ratio of the aperture and the effect on antenna efficiency in oversized rectangular slotted waveguide arrays

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E87-B, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1623-1630

  Kai, Hisahiro ^a   Hirokawa, Jiro ^a   Ando, Makoto ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aperture efficiency; Aperture illumination; Aspect ratio; Oversized rectangular slotted waveguide arrays; Parallel plate slotted waveguide arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ARRAYS; ASPECT RATIO; LIGHTING; MILLIMETER WAVES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

APERTURE EFFICIENCY; APERTURE ILLUMINATION; OVERSIZED RECTANGULAR SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS; PARALLEL PLATE SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

EID: 3042633935     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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