Application of the SWE-to-PWE Antenna Diagnostics Technique to an Offset Reflector Antenna

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 204-213

  Cappellin, Cecilia ^a,b   Frandsen, Aksel ^a   Breinbjerg, Olav ^b  

^a TICRA   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antenna measurements; offset reflector antenna; plane wave expansion; spherical near field measurements; spherical wave expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008010044     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2008.4674761     Document Type: Article

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