Leaky wave enhanced feed arrays for the improvement of the edge of coverage gain in multibeam reflector antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1280-1291

  Llombart, Nuria ^a,b   Neto, Andrea ^a   Gerini, Giampiero ^a   Bonnedal, Magnus ^c   De Maagt, Peter ^d  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SAAB AB   (Sweden)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Leaky wave antennas; Leaky waves; Reflector antenna feeds; Reflector antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MIRRORS; WAVEGUIDES;

LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS; MULTIBEAM FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; MULTIBEAM REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; REFLECTOR ANTENNA FEEDS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 44449152536     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.922680     Document Type: Article

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