Design of coupled-oscillator arrays without a posteriori tuning

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 410-413

  Wang, Xing ^a,b   Pearson, L Wilson ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled oscillator array; Phased array antenna; Spatial power combining

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MESFET DEVICES; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; TUNING;

BEAM STEERING; COUPLED-OSCILLATOR ARRAYS; PHASED-ARRAY ANTENNAS; SPATIAL POWER COMBINING;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 12344338716     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.839946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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