Electrically steerable passive array radiator (ESPAR) antennas

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 43-50

  Kawakami, Haruo ^a   Ohira, Takashi ^b  

^a Antenna Giken Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antenna radiation patterns; Array signal processing; Beam steering; Direction of arrival estimation; Diversity methods; ESPAR; Gain measurement; Monopole antenna; Monopole arrays; Navigation; Shaped beam antennas; Yagi Uda arrays

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GAIN MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAM STEERING; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; DIVERSITY METHODS; ELECTRICALLY STEERABLE PASSIVE ARRAY RADIATOR (ESPAR); MONOPOLE ANTENNAS; MONOPOLE ARRAYS; SHAPED BEAM ANTENNAS; YAGI-UDA ARRAYS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 23944474290     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2005.1487777     Document Type: Article

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