Scanning performances of wideband connected arrays in the presence of a backing reflector

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 10 PART 2, 2009, Pages 3092-3102

  Neto, Andrea ^a   Cavallo, Daniele ^a,b   Gerini, Giampiero ^a,b   Toso, Giovanni ^c  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Cross polarization; Green's function (GF); Ultrawideband antennas

Indexed keywords

CONNECTED ARRAYS; CROSS POLARIZATION; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; PLANAR ARRAYS; THEORETICAL DESIGN; TRANSMIT/RECEIVE MODULES; ULTRA WIDE-BAND ANTENNAS; WIDE ANGLE; WIDE-BAND;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

EID: 73949140821     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2028631     Document Type: Article

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