Non-foster impedance matching improves S/N of wideband electrically-small VHF antennas and arrays

Proceedings of the Second IASTED International Conference on Antennas, Radar, and Wave Propagation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 318-323

  Rudish, R M ^a   Sussman Fort, Stephen E ^a,b  

^a EDO Corporation   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Non Foster Impedance matching; Phased Arrays

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; CAPACITORS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ACOUSTIC); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GRATING LOBES; NON-FOSTER IMPEDANCE MATCHING; WIDEBAND ELEMENTS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 33751300748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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