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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 48 Number 6, June 2000

Antenna Pattern Synthesis Utilizing Spherical Bessel Functions

Page 853.

Abstract:

Pattern synthesis of linear antennas utilizing the spherical bessel functions is presented. This leads to antenna current distribution by the Legendre polynomials of the first kind, which are of finite support. Some examples are given to illustrate this procedure.

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