2D beam scanning planar antenna array using composite right/left-handed leaky wave antennas

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E89-C, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1904-1911

  Kaneda, Tokio ^a   Sanada, Atsushi ^a   Kubo, Hiroshi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2D beam scanning; Array antennas; Butler matrices; Composite right left handed transmission lines; Leaky wave antennas; Metamaterials

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SWITCHING;

2D BEAM SCANNING; BUTLER MATRICES; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED TRANSMISSION LINES; LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNAS; METAMATERIALS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 33845586422     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e89-c.12.1904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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