Active Integrated Antennas

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 1994, Pages 2186-2194

  Lin, Jenshan ^a   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NETWORKS; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SUBSTRATES;

ACTIVE INTEGRATED ANTENNAS; LOW COST ACTIVE INTEGRATED ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0028745743     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.339741     Document Type: Article

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