Adaptation of schelkunoff's superdirective antenna theory for the realization of superoscillatory antenna arrays

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 315-318

  Wong, Alex M H ^a   Eleftheriades, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffraction limit; Image resolution; Subwavelength focusing; Superdirectivity; Superoscillation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PATTERN; ANTENNA THEORY; DIFFRACTION LIMIT; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; FREE SPACE; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; IMAGE DISTANCE; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; SUBWAVELENGTH FOCUSING; SUPERDIRECTIVITY; WAVE FORMS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

FOCUSING;

EID: 77951820910     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2047710     Document Type: Article

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