Transmission-line coupling of active microstrip antennas for one- and two-dimensional phased arrays

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E80-C, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1211-1219

  Ispir, Ragip ^a   Nogi, Shigeji ^b   Sanagi, Minoru ^a   Fukui, Kiyoshi ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active antenna; Microwave; Phased array; Power combining; Transmission line coupling

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; MICROWAVES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

TRANSMISSION LINE COUPLING;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0031220383     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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