Center feed single layer slotted waveguide array

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1474-1480

  Park, Sehyun ^a   Tsunemitsu, Yasuhiro ^b,c   Hirokawa, Jiro ^b   Ando, Makoto ^b  

^a Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN RADIO CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Center feed; Reflection canceling; Waveguide arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; ANTENNA LOBES; ANTENNA RADIATION; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SLOT ANTENNAS;

FREQUENCY DEPENDENT BEAM SQUINTING; REFLECTION CANCELING; SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 33646535097     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.874310     Document Type: Article

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