Hodograph of antenna local phase center: Computation and analysis

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICATT.2015.7136799

Keywords:

antenna radiation pattern, antenna synthesis, hodograph, phase centre

Abstract

The concept of a local phase center is discussed. At the test example, the computation algorithm has been validated by an analytical one. A technique overwhelming some calculus difficulty is presented. An indefiniteness of a local phase center is proved to be not greater than that of a widely used notion of an antenna phase center.

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Published

2015-04-25