The use of shorting posts to improve the scanning range of probe-fed microstrip patch phased arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 302-309

  Waterhouse, Rodney B ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRIP PATCH PHASED ARRAYS; SHORTING POSTS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN INTEGRAL EQUATION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 0030109019     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.486297     Document Type: Article

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