Isotropic chiral objects with zero backscattering

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4449-4452

  Karilainen, Antti O ^a   Tretyakov, Sergei A ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Antenna radiation patterns; antennas; receiving antennas

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DIRECTION; CHIRAL PARTICLES; CONDUCTING WIRE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

ANTENNA RADIATION; ANTENNAS; BACKSCATTERING; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

EID: 84866054192     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2207069     Document Type: Article

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