Time-domain measurement of the frequency-dependent delay of broadband antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-47

  McKinney, Jason D ^a,b   Peroulis, Dimitrios ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband antennas; Radio frequency (RF) photonics; Time domain techniques; Wltrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FREQUENCY BANDS; IMPULSE NOISE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BROADBAND ANTENNA; IMPULSE RESPONSE MEASUREMENT; RADIO-FREQUENCY PHOTONICS; ULTRAWIDEBAND;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 39449125851     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.913079     Document Type: Article

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