A novel amplitude-phase weighting for analog microwave beamforming

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1997-2008

  Farzaneh, Sadegh ^a   Sebak, Abdel Razik ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amplitude and phase weighing; Microwave beamforming; Phased array antennas; Smart antennas

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AMPLITUDE-PHASE WEIGHTING; MICROWAVE BEAMFORMING; SMART ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 33746918679     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.877160     Document Type: Article

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