A sliced spherical Lüneburg lens

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 163-166

  Rondineau, Sébastien ^a   Himdi, Mohamed ^b   Sorieux, Jacques ^b  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Effective permittivity; Lens; L neburg; Sphere; Technology

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PERMITTIVITY; SATELLITES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; LENS; LUNEBURG; SPHERE;

LENSES;

EID: 3142773487     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2003.819045     Document Type: Article

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