The eleven antenna: A compact low-profile decade bandwidth dual polarized feed for reflector antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 368-375

  Olsson, Rikard ^a   Kildal, Per Simon ^a   Weinreb, Sander ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Log periodic antenna; Multifunction; Reflector antenna feed; Square kilometer array (SKA); Ultrawide band (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA REFLECTORS; BANDWIDTH; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LOG-PERIODIC ANTENNA; REFLECTOR ANTENNA FEED; SQUARE KILOMETER ARRAY; ULTRAWIDE-BAND FEED;

ANTENNA FEEDERS;

EID: 32444449282     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.863392     Document Type: Article

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