Effect of dielectric permittivity on infinite arrays of single-polarized vivaldi antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 351-358

  Kasturi, Sreenivas ^a   Schaubert, Daniel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Infinite array; Simulator; Tapered slot antenna (TSA); Vivaldi; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; PERMITTIVITY; SLOT ANTENNAS; WAVEGUIDES;

INFINITE ARRAY; TAPERED SLOT ANTENNA; VIVALDI ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 32444448599     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.863374     Document Type: Article

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