Five-bit substrate guided wave true-time delay module working up to 2.4 THz with a packing density of 2.5 lines/cm2 for phased array antenna applications

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1838-1844

  Fu, Zhenhai ^a,b,c   Chen, Ray T ^a,d  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Unversity of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Phased array antennas; True time delay

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344092378     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601697     Document Type: Article

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