Conditions for Direction-Independent Distortion in UWB Antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3178-3183

  McLean, James ^a   Sutton, Robert ^a   Foltz, Heinrich ^b  

^a TDK CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated energy gain; correlated energy pattern; correlation; correlation coefficient; energy; energy gain; maximum directivity antenna; multipath; pattern; pulse; ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547093055     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.883956     Document Type: Article

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