Comparative design and analysis of Luneburg and half Maxwell fish-eye lens antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3058-3062

  Fuchs, Benjamin ^a,b   Lafond, Olivier ^a   Palud, Séstian ^a   Le Coq, Laurent ^a   Himdi, Mohamed ^a   Buck, Michael C ^c   Rondineau, Sébastian ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^d University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^e TSM Antennas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

High directivity; Inhomogeneous lenses; Lens antennas; Millimeter wave antenna

Indexed keywords

LENSES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

HIGH DIRECTIVITY; INHOMOGENEOUS LENSES; LENS ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNA;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 51749124020     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.928818     Document Type: Article

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