Miniaturized rectangular hard waveguides for use in multifrequency phased arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 100-109

  Kehn, Malcolm Ng Mou ^a   Kildal, Per Simon ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aperture reuse; Hard waveguides; Interlaced arrays; Multifrequency arrays; Sparse arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES;

APERTURE REUSE; HARD WAVEGUIDES; INTERLACED ARRAYS; MULTIFREQUENCY ARRAYS; SPARSE ARRAYS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 13244272053     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.840519     Document Type: Article

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