Accurate design method for pyramidal horns of any desired gain and aperture phase error

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 31-32

  Selvan, Krishnasamy T ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Optimum pyramidal horn design; Pyramidal horn design

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

APERTURE PHASE ERROR; PYRAMIDAL HORNS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 40549098727     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2007.914119     Document Type: Article

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