Performance of reduced size substrate lens antennas for millimeter-wave communications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1278-1286

  Godi, Gaël ^a   Sauleau, Ronan ^a   Thouroude, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Electrically small antennas; Electromagnetic reflection; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Lens antennas; Millimeter wave antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LENSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PERMITTIVITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; LENS ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNAS;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 18844396130     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.844420     Document Type: Article

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