Design of ultra-wideband monopulse receiver

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3821-3826

  Tan, Adrian Eng Choon ^b,c   Chia, Michael Yan Wah ^a,b,c   Rambabu, K ^b,c  

^a IEEE

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Monopulse radar; Radar receivers; Radar tracking; Time domain analysis; Ultra wideband (UWB) radar

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; RADAR; RADAR RECEIVERS; RADAR TRACKING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CROSS-CORRELATION RECEIVERS; MONOPULSE RADARS; RIDGED-HORN ANTENNAS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND MONOPULSE RECEIVERS;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 33750813463     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.884683     Document Type: Article

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