Free-space antenna field/pattern retrieval in reverberation environments

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 329-332

  Fiumara, Vincenzo ^a   Fusco, Adele ^b   Matta, Vincenzo ^a   Pinto, Innocenzo M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antenna measurements; Parameter estimation; Reverberation chamber

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS; REVERBERATION CHAMBER;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 31144466029     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2005.855633     Document Type: Article

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