Matjaz Vidmar, University of Ljubljana

Articles by Matjaz Vidmar, University of Ljubljana

An Improved Microwave Weed Killer

Microwave heating can replace toxic chemicals in agriculture to control vegetation and in particular to kill weeds. A suitable horn-antenna array, presented in this article, allows the parallel operation of a large number of magnetrons and an efficient...

October 1, 2005

Matjaz Vidmar, University of Ljubljana

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Applications of microwave heating are well known and are described in many publications (an exhaustive list of references is given by J. Thuery 1 ). A very promising application of microwave heating in agriculture is to replace toxic, dangerous and environment-unfriendly chemicals used to control vegetation, as described in...

An Archery-target Antenna

The "archery-target" antenna presented in this article is a directional antenna evolved from the short-backfire antenna (SBFA). The new antenna has an additional annular reflector and a much-increased large reflector when compared to the SBFA. The arch...

May 14, 2005

Matjaz Vidmar, University of Ljubljana

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Parabolic-reflector antennas are widely used as microwave directional antennas. Unfortunately, the illumination of a parabolic mirror becomes rather inefficient when the dimensions of the mirror are not large enough compared to the wavelength. On the other hand, the directional gain of microwave cavity antennas1 is rather small, since it...