Effects of an electrically large airborne radome on radiation patterns and input impedance of a dipole array

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2399-2402

  Zhao, Wei Jiang ^a   Gan, Yeow Beng ^a   Li, Le Wei ^a   Wang, Chao Fu ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Antenna; Computational electromagnetics; Integral equation (IE); Physical optics (PO); Radome

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; RADOMES;

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; ELECTRICALLY LARGE THREE-DIMENSIONAL DIELECTRIC RADOME; IMAGE THEORY;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 34548172030     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.901916     Document Type: Article

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