A comparative study of radio wave propagation over the earth due to a vertical electric dipole

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2723-2732

  Fei, Ting ^a   Li, Le Wei ^a   Yeo, Tat Soon ^a   Wang, Hai Long ^b   Wu, Qun ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dipole radiation; Earth; Planar waveguides; Radio propagation; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; RADIO WAVES; SURFACE WAVES;

DIELECTRIC RESONANCE; DIPOLE RADIATION; SPHERICAL EARTH MODEL;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 35348893226     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.905869     Document Type: Article

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