Broadband tapered microstrip leaky-wave antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1922-1928

  Hong, Wanchu ^a   Chen, Tai Lee ^b   Chang, Chi Yang ^a   Sheen, Jyh Wen ^c   Lin, Yu De ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c WALSIN TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Broadband planar balun; Feeding structure; Leaky wave; Microstrip; Tapered antenna

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA RADIATION; BANDWIDTH; MICROSTRIP LINES;

BROADBAND PLANAR BALUNS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0041362043     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.814739     Document Type: Article

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