Designing a 161-Element Ku-Band Microstrip Reflectarray of Variable Size Patches Using an Equivalent Unit Cell Waveguide Approach

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 10 II, 2003, Pages 2953-2962

  Tsai, Feng Chi E ^a   Bialkowski, Marek E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic modeling; Microstrip patch array; Multilayer patch antenna; Rectangular waveguide; Reflectarray

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES;

VARIABLE SIZE PATCHES;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0142126355     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.818001     Document Type: Article

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