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Early Pioneers of Electromagnetic Horns: From 1880 to 1960 [Historically Speaking]
Document Type
Periodical
Author
Source
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine IEEE Antennas Propag. Mag. Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE. 65(5):86-92 Oct, 2023
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
History
Electromagnetic devices
Horn antennas
Language
ISSN
1045-9243
1558-4143
Abstract
Early electromagnetic (EM) horns were developed experimentally, but in the late 1930s, there was a fundamental shift in the approach. Barrow and Chu laid the mathematical foundations of EM horn antennas. An improved theory and basic practical information relating to horns were encapsulated by 1950 in Volume 12 of the Radiation Laboratory Series edited by Samuel Silver [1] and in the book by Schelkunoff and Friis [2]. The contributions of the early pioneers to the theory and design of EM horns dating from the 1880s until the 1960s, when computer methods became feasible, are reviewed in this article.