Low cost and compact active integrated antenna transceiver for system applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 10 PART 1, 1996, Pages 1642-1649

  Flynt, Robert A ^a,b   Fan, Lu ^a,c   Navarro, Julio A ^a,d   Chang, Kai ^b,c  

^a IEEE

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^d Epsilon Lambda Electronics Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COSTS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RADAR; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE INTEGRATED ANTENNAS; DOPPLER SENSORS; INVERTED PATCH ANTENNA; QUASI OPTICAL POWER COMBINING; SPATIAL POWER COMBINING;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 0030257544     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.538955     Document Type: Article

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