Generating contoured beams with single-shaped reflectors using a iterative field-matrix approach

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 697-700

  Gonzalez Valdes, Borja ^a   Martinez Lorenzo, Jose A ^b   Rappaport, Carey ^b   Pino, Antonio G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Contoured beams; Physical optics; Reflector antennas; Shapping

Indexed keywords

CONTOURED BEAMS; FAR-FIELD PATTERNS; FAST CONVERGENCE; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; LOCAL SURFACES; MATRIX; MATRIX APPROACH; REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; SHAPED REFLECTOR; SHAPPING; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION;

PHYSICAL OPTICS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; REFLECTION;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 77957989144     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.2009556     Document Type: Article

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