Two advanced solar antenna "SOLANT" designs for satellite and terrestrial communications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2028-2034

  Vaccaro, Stefane ^a   Mosig, Juan R ^a   De Maagt, Peter ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Circularly polarized array; Slot antennas; SOLANT; Solar antenna; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR ANTENNAS;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 0042864747     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.815424     Document Type: Article

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