An application of high-impedance ground planes to phased array antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1377-1381

  Broas, Romulo F Jimenez ^a,b   Sievenpiper, Daniel F ^a,c   Yablonovitch, Eli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandgap; Coupling; Phased array antennas; Surface impedance; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HORN ANTENNAS; JAMMING; RADIO RECEIVERS; SURFACE WAVES;

BANDGAP; HIGH IMPEDNACE GROUND PLANES; SURFACE IMPEDANCE;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 18844406260     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.844408     Document Type: Article

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