Improving the Scan Performance of Probe-Fed Microstrip Patch Arrays on High Dielectric Constant Substrates

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 705-712

  Waterhouse, Rodney B ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; PERFORMANCE; PERMITTIVITY; SCANNING ANTENNAS; SUBSTRATES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FREE SPACE WAVELENGTH; PLANE PARASITIC ELEMENTS; PROBE FED MICROSTRIP PATCH ARRAYS; RIGOROUS FULL WAVE ANALYSIS; VARACTOR DIODES;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0029342397     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.391142     Document Type: Article

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