A four-sector shaped-beam antenna for 60-GHz wireless LANs

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E82-C, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1293-1299

  Murakami, Yasushi ^a   Iwasaki, Hisao ^a   Kijima, Tooru ^a   Kato, Akihito ^b   Manabe, Takeshi ^b   Ihara, Toshio ^b   Fujise, Masayuki ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Microstrip antennas; Microwave and millimeter wave technology; Multi sector antenna; Shaped beam; Wireless LANs

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MICROSTRIP LINES; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BASE STATION ANTENNAS; MULTISECTOR ANTENNA; REMOTE TERMINAL ANTENNAS; SHAPED BEAM ANTENNA;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0033157552     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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