A steerable leaky-wave antenna using a tunable impedance ground plane

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 179-182

  Sievenpiper, Dan ^b   Schaffner, Jim ^a   Lee, J J ^a,c   Livingston, Stan ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal antennas; Electromagnetic surface waves; Leaky wave antennas; Scanning antennas

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POLARIZATION; SURFACE WAVES;

CONFORMAL ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURFACE WAVES; LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS; WAVE VECTORS;

SCANNING ANTENNAS;

EID: 13244285911     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2002.807788     Document Type: Article

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