D.A. McNamara

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
134 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

D.A. McNamara is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, D.A. McNamara has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 70 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 21 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in D.A. McNamara's work include Antenna Design and Analysis (77 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (76 papers) and Antenna Design and Optimization (47 papers). D.A. McNamara is often cited by papers focused on Antenna Design and Analysis (77 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (76 papers) and Antenna Design and Optimization (47 papers). D.A. McNamara collaborates with scholars based in Canada, South Africa and United States. D.A. McNamara's co-authors include J.A.G. Malherbe, Carl W. I. Pistorius, Jonathan Ethier, A. Petosa, N. Gagnon, J. Shaker, J. Joubert, M. R. Chaharmir, Jacob Coetzee and Ruiyang Li and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Optics Express and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.

In The Last Decade

D.A. McNamara

121 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Introduction to the Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D.A. McNamara Canada	21	1.4k	1.0k	256	234	112	134	1.7k
Jean‐Jacques Laurin Canada	21	1.1k 0.8×	968 0.9×	333 1.3×	111 0.5×	150 1.3×	144	1.6k
A. Sebak Canada	24	1.7k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	229 0.9×	272 1.2×	159 1.4×	194	2.0k
S.R. Rengarajan United States	24	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	88 0.3×	237 1.0×	79 0.7×	168	1.9k
J. Rashed‐Mohassel Iran	19	961 0.7×	926 0.9×	177 0.7×	156 0.7×	128 1.1×	129	1.3k
G. Di Massa Italy	26	1.7k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	390 1.5×	146 0.6×	287 2.6×	164	2.1k
S.H. Zainud-Deen Egypt	20	1.3k 0.9×	949 0.9×	365 1.4×	105 0.4×	198 1.8×	200	1.6k
Philippe Pouliguen France	17	1.0k 0.7×	633 0.6×	372 1.5×	266 1.1×	129 1.2×	121	1.3k
Homayoon Oraizi Iran	29	2.3k 1.7×	2.1k 2.1×	464 1.8×	303 1.3×	239 2.1×	192	2.9k
Chen Wu Canada	17	821 0.6×	972 1.0×	94 0.4×	352 1.5×	57 0.5×	89	1.3k
Amalendu Patnaik India	25	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	211 0.8×	84 0.4×	219 2.0×	140	1.9k

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McNamara, D.A., et al.. (2024). TD-EFIE Method-of-Moments Solution Using the Numerical Inversion of the Laplace Transform With Time-Stepping Re-Initialization. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 72(11). 8655–8668.

McNamara, D.A., et al.. (2024). Proton and Heavy-Ion Characterizations on Microchip PolarFire^® SoC FPGA Microprocessor Subsystem. 1–7.

McNamara, D.A., et al.. (2021). The shape synthesis of 3D electrically‐small conducting surface antennas. Electronics Letters. 57(8). 311–313. 1 indexed citations

Li, Ruiyang, D.A. McNamara, & Gao Wei. (2019). Evaluation of the Available Directivity of a Radiating Structure in Terms of Its Characteristic Mode Content. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 67(10). 6686–6691. 11 indexed citations

McNamara, D.A., et al.. (2017). The shape synthesis of unit elements for transmitarray antennas. 97–98. 3 indexed citations

Berini, Pierre, et al.. (2012). Periodic plasmonic nanoantennas in a piecewise homogeneous background. Optics Express. 20(16). 18044–18044. 21 indexed citations

Gagnon, N., A. Petosa, & D.A. McNamara. (2012). Electrically thin free‐standing phase and amplitude shifting surface for beam shaping applications. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. 54(7). 1566–1571. 5 indexed citations

McNamara, D.A., et al.. (2010). An accessible two-dimensional moment method analysis for composite antenna models. 2. 1–4. 1 indexed citations

Ethier, Jonathan, et al.. (2010). Towards routine automated error assessment in antenna spherical near-field measurements. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

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Gagnon, N., A. Petosa, & D.A. McNamara. (2009). Comparison between conventional lenses and an electrically thin lens made using a phase shifting surface (PSS) at Ka Band. 117–120. 14 indexed citations

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Parsons, Gregory N., et al.. (2007). An investigation of adaptive acquisition techniques for planar near-field antenna measurements. uO Research (University of Ottawa). 1621–1624. 2 indexed citations

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Lakhtakia, Akhlesh, et al.. (2006). Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Electrically switchable exhibition of circular Bragg phenomenon by an isotropic slab, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (2006) 48(11) 2148 ‐ 2153. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. 49(1). 250–251. 2 indexed citations

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McNamara, D.A., et al.. (1992). Direct synthesis of near-optimum difference patterns for planar arrays. Electronics Letters. 28(8). 753–675. 3 indexed citations

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McNamara, D.A., et al.. (1991). A note on the effect of linear independence of testing functions used in the moment-method solution of thin-wire antenna problems. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. 4. 573. 1 indexed citations

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McNamara, D.A., et al.. (1990). Sensitivity of the radiation pattern of a small slotted waveguide array to the finiteness of its elliptical groundplane. Electronics Letters. 26(6). 387–388.

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Joubert, J. & D.A. McNamara. (1989). Dyadic Green's function of electric type for inhomogeneously loaded rectangular waveguides. IEE Proceedings H Microwaves Antennas and Propagation. 136(6). 469–469. 5 indexed citations

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McNamara, D.A., et al.. (1989). Effect of finite rectangular groundplane on near-in sidelobes of small linear slotted waveguide arrays. Electronics Letters. 25(13). 858–860. 1 indexed citations

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McNamara, D.A.. (1987). Quadratic forms for performance indices of symmetrical and antisymmetrical linear arrays. Electronics Letters. 23(4). 148–149. 5 indexed citations

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McNamara, D.A., et al.. (1983). Design and swept-frequency measurement of printed circuit board log-periodic dipole arrays. NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N. 85. 25671. 2 indexed citations

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McNamara, D.A., et al.. (1983). Design and performance of etched polarisation transformers for microwave frequencies. STIN. 85. 24218. 1 indexed citations

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