A modified bow-tie antenna for improved pulse radiation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2184-2192

  Lestari, Andrian Andaya ^a,b   Bharata, Endon ^a   Suksmono, Andriyan Bayu ^a   Kurniawan, Adit ^a   Yarovoy, Alexander G ^b   Ligthart, Leo P ^b  

^a BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bow tie antenna; ground penetrating radar (GPR); resistive loading; ultrawideband (UWB) antenna

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BOW-TIE ANTENNAS; COMPACT SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FEED POINT; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; OPTIMAL LOADING; PULSE EXCITATION; PULSE RADIATION; RESISTIVE LOADING; THEORETICAL MODELS; TIME-HARMONIC; TRANSMITTED PULSE; TRAVELING WAVE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNAS; UWB PULSE;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LOADING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR; TRAVELING WAVE ANTENNAS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 77954552874     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2048853     Document Type: Article

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