Design and full-wave analysis of cavity-backed resistively loaded circular-end bow-tie antennas for GPR applications - Part I

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 809-817

  Caratelli, Diego ^a   Yarovoy, Alexander ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bow tie antenna; Dielectric embedding; Ground penetrating radar; Locally conformal finite difference time domain modeling; Resistive loading

Indexed keywords

BOW-TIE ANTENNAS; CONFORMAL FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; DIELECTRIC EMBEDDING; GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR; RESISTIVE LOADING;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; BANDWIDTH; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 79955798784     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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