Design and analysis of a reconfigurable dual-beam grating antenna for low-cost millimeter-wave beam-steering

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 999-1006

  Rodenbeck, Christopher T ^a   Li, Ming Yi ^a   Chang, Kai ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Gratings; Millimeter wave antenna arrays; Multibeam antennas; Scanning antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; NUMERICAL METHODS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MILLIMETER WAVE BEAM STEERING; MULTIBEAM ANTENNAS; RECONFIGURABLE DUAL BEAM GRATING ANTENNA;

SCANNING ANTENNAS;

EID: 2442541153     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.825676     Document Type: Article

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