Definition
Horn Antenna. An antenna with metallic flare walls which provides a transition between waves propagating in a waveguide and electromagnetic waves directivity radiated into space.
Microwave horn antennas
Horns are one of the simplest and most widely used microwave antennas. Interests in horn antennas date back to the turn of the nineteenth century and then considerably revived during World War II. Microwave horn antennas are essentially a device to make a transition from waves propagating in a waveguide into electromagnetic signals transmitting in another open medium such as free space. They can have metallic walls, dielectric material, or the combination of both, and occur in various shapes and sizes to fulfill many practical applications, such as communication systems, remote sensing, radio frequency heating, reference sources for other antenna testing and evaluation. Other than being a stand-alone directive power transmitter/receiver, horns are also used as feeds for other...
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Rahmat-Samii, Y. (2014). Microwave Horn Antennas. In: Njoku, E.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36699-9_92
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