W-band steerable composite right/left-handed leaky wave antenna for automotive applications

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E89-C, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1337-1344

  Matsuzawa, Shin Ichiro ^a   Sato, Kazuo ^a   Inoue, Yoshinori ^a   Nomura, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a Rd Management Section   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam scanning; Composite right left handed transmission lines; Leaky wave antennas; Metamaterials; Millimeter waves

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; SCANNING; SLOT ANTENNAS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

BEAM SCANNING; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED TRANSMISSION LINES; LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 33748766339     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e89-c.9.1337     Document Type: Article

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