A frequency-controlled beam-steering array with mixing frequency compensation for multichannel applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1039-1048

  Nishio, Takahide ^a   Wang, Yuanxun ^a   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Frequency division multiaccess; Multifrequency antennas; Phased arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; ANTENNA RADIATION; BANDWIDTH; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS;

BEAM STEERING; FREQUENCY CONTROLLED ARRAY; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIACCESS; MULTIFREQUENCY ANTENNA;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 2442528515     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.825674     Document Type: Article

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