Low-sidelobe multimode horn design for circular coverage based on quadratic programming approach

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E91-C, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-8

  Deguchi, Hiroyuki ^a   Tsuji, Mikio ^a   Watanabe, Hiroaki ^b  

^a DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ISUZU MOTORS LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antenna gain; Horn antennas; Optimization; Radiation patterns

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); OPTIMIZATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

ANTENNA GAINS; EXCITATION COEFFICIENTS; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; LOW SIDE LOBES; LOW SIDELOBE LEVEL; MULTIMODE HORN; OPTIMIZATION DESIGN; RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 77950439699     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e91-c.1.3     Document Type: Article

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