Preliminary investigations of a low-cost ultrawideband array concept

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3791-3799

  Kindt, Rick W ^a   Kragalott, Mark ^a   Parent, Mark G ^a   Tavik, Gregory C ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ultrawideband (UWB) antenna arrays

Indexed keywords

APERTURE SIZES; ARRAY ARCHITECTURE; ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; ARRAY DESIGN; ARRAY PERFORMANCE; COST EFFECTIVE; DESIGN CONCEPT; DIFFERENT SIZES; EQUIVALENT APERTURE; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; ULTRAWIDEBAND ANTENNA ARRAYS; WIDEBAND ANTENNA;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 72649101489     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2027210     Document Type: Article

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