Microstrip Array Technology

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 25-37

  Mailloux, Robert J ^a   McIlvenna, John F ^a   Kernweis, Nicholas P ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRIP DEVICES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0019398548     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1981.1142525     Document Type: Article

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