Dual-band dual-polarized perforated microstrip antennas for SAR applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 58-66

  Shafai, Lotfollah L ^a   Chamma, Walid A ^b   Barakat, Mohamed ^c   Strickland, Peter C ^d   Séguin, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b InfoMagnetics Technologies Corp   (Canada)

^c CAL Corp   (Canada)

^d CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SLOT ANTENNAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

INTERELEMENT SEPARATIONS; PARASITIC SLOTS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0033901739     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.827386     Document Type: Article

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