On the physical limitations of the interaction of a spherical aperture and a random field

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-128

  Alayón Glazunov, Andrés ^a,b   Gustafsson, Mats ^a   Molisch, Andreas F ^a,c,d  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Mean effective gain; physical bounds; quality factor; spherical vector waves

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GAIN PATTERNS; ANTENNA GAINS; CORRELATION STATISTICS; EFFECTIVE GAIN; EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; MEAN EFFECTIVE GAIN; PHYSICAL BOUNDS; PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS; QUALITY FACTOR; RANDOM FIELDS; SPHERICAL VECTOR WAVES; TE MODE; WAVE EXPANSION; WIRELESS PROPAGATION CHANNELS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; SPHERES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 78651269751     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2090639     Document Type: Article

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