Design of reactive parasitic elements in electronic beam steering arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1998-2003

  Schaer, Beat ^a,b   Rambabu, K ^c   Bornemann, Jens ^c   Vahldieck, Rüdiger ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Broadcasting Corporation   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Circular arrays; Parasitic antennas; Phased arrays

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; DESIGN; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; VECTORS;

BEAM STEERING; CIRCULAR ARRAYS; PARASITIC ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 22444444600     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.848452     Document Type: Article

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