Circularly polarized 20-GHz high-temperature superconducting microstrip antenna array

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 4725-4732

  Morrow, Jarrett D ^b   Williams, Jeffery T ^a,c   Davis, Mathew F ^c   Licon, Darian L ^c   Rampersad, H R ^c   Jazdyk, David R ^c   Zhang, Xiaoping ^c   Long, Stuart A ^a,c   Wolfe, John C ^c  

^a IEEE

^b Spike Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED MICROSTRIP ANTENNA ARRAYS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0033332824     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.819344     Document Type: Article

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