An active integrated retrodirective transponder for remote information retrieval-on-demand

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1658-1662

  Miyamoto, R Y ^a   Qian, Y ^a   Itoh, T ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Active integrated antenna; Mobile communications; Phase conjugator; Retrodirective array; Transponder

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED RETRODIRECTIVE TRANSPONDER;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MIXER CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SENSORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TRANSPONDERS;

EID: 0035446319     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.942580     Document Type: Article

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