Twenty-GHz broadband microstrip array with elcctromagnetically coupled high Tc superconducting feed network

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 7 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1384-1389

  Herd, Jeffrey S ^a   Poles, Livio D ^a   Kenney, James P ^a   Derov, John S ^a   Champion, Michelle H ^a   Suva, Jose H ^a   Davidovitz, Marat ^a   Herd, Kenneth G ^a   Bocchi, William J ^a   Mittleman, Steven D ^a   Hayes, Dallas T ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PERFORMANCE; PHASE SHIFTERS; PRODUCT DESIGN; THERMAL LOAD; THERMOANALYSIS;

ANTENNA ARCHITECTURE; ANTENNA DESIGN; BANDWIDTH MEASUREMENTS; BROADBAND MICROSTRIP ARRAY; BROADBAND RADIATING APERTURE; COAXIAL INTERCONNECTIONS; FEED NETWORK; SCANNING ARRAY;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 0030191944     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.508245     Document Type: Article

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