Design of tapered leaky-wave antennas in hybrid waveguide-planar technology for millimeter waveband applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 8 I, 2005, Pages 2563-2577

  Gómez Tornero, José Luis ^a   de la Torre Martínez, Alejandro ^b   Rebenaque, David Cañete ^a   Gugliemi, Marco ^c   Álvarez Melcón, Alejandro ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b Siemens Company   (Spain)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hybrid waveguide printed circuit technology; Leaky wave antennas; Millimeter wave antennas; Sidelobes level control; Tapering antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SLOT ANTENNAS; WAVEGUIDES;

HYBRID WAVEGUIDE PRINTED CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY; LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNAS; SIDELOBES LEVEL CONTROL; TAPERING ANTENNAS;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 25144485576     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.850741     Document Type: Article

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