Design of Horn Clusters Including Edge Effects and Mutual Coupling

Computation of immersed patterns including mutual coupling and edge effects is proposed in order to define a new step for the synthesis of multifed antennas. This procedure has been applied to the DBS and AMERICA-GOV antennas of HISPASAT satellite reaching an improvement versus synthesis with isolated patterns.

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