Optimal synthesis of directivity constrained pencil beams by means of circularly symmetric aperture fields

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 1386-1389

  Bucci, Ovidio Mario ^a,b   Isernia, Tommaso ^c   Morabito, Andrea Francesco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antenna synthesis; Antenna theory; Aperture antennas; Power synthesis; Satellite antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA SYNTHESIS; ANTENNA THEORY; APERTURE ANTENNAS; APERTURE DISTRIBUTION; APERTURE FIELDS; COVERAGE ZONE; DIRECTIVITY; FAR-FIELD; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMAL SYNTHESIS; PENCIL BEAM; POWER SYNTHESIS; SIDELOBE LEVELS;

OPTIMIZATION;

SATELLITE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77949295879     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2039189     Document Type: Article

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