Efficiencies and system temperature for a beamforming array

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 565-568

  Warnick, Karl F ^a   Jeffs, Brian D ^a  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifier noise; Antenna array feeds; Antenna arrays; Antenna efficiency

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER NOISE; ANTENNA ARRAY FEEDS; ANTENNA EFFICIENCY; APERTURE EFFICIENCY; BEAMFORMING ARRAYS; MUTUAL COUPLING; NOISE MATCHING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PHASED ARRAYS; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; SPILLOVER EFFICIENCIES; STANDARD DEFINITIONS; SYSTEM TEMPERATURE;

ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 67649388199     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.2001752     Document Type: Article

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