The design of shared aperture antennas consisting of differently sized elements

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 376-383

  Coman, Cristian I ^a   Lager, Ioan E ^a   Ligthart, Leo P ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mode matching methods; Shared aperture; Sparse array antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNA RADIATION; BANDWIDTH; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MODE-MATCHING METHODS; SHARED APERTURE; SPARSE ARRAY ANTENNA;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 32444447978     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.863382     Document Type: Article

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