Assessment of a TD-based method for characterization of antennas

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1412-1419

  Cataldo, Andrea ^a   Monti, Giuseppina ^a   De Benedetto, Egidio ^a   Cannazza, Giuseppe ^a   Tarricone, Luciano ^a   Catarinucci, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antenna measurements; Frequency domain (FD) analysis; Microwave reflectometry; Scattering parameters; Time domain reflectometry (TDR)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY LEVELS; ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS; CHARACTERIZATION MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN (FD) ANALYSIS; HIGH COSTS; OPTIMAL TIME; RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READERS; TIME DOMAINS; TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (TDR); VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; ANTENNAS; DATA PROCESSING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SCATTERING; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349220129     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2009199     Document Type: Article

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