Dual band hard horn for use in cluster-fed multi-beam antennas in Ka-band

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest)

Volumn 3 A, Issue , 2005, Pages 379-382

  Sotoudeh, Omid ^a   Kildal, Per Simon ^a   Ingvarson, Per ^b   Mangenot, Cyril ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SAAB AB   (Sweden)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33846858371     PISSN: 15223965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APS.2005.1552263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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