Reconfigurable slot antenna with fixed-fixed beam type RF MEMS capacitors

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn 626 SP, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Erdil, Emre ^a   Topalli, Kagan ^b   Unlu, Mehmet ^b   Istanbulluoglu, Ipek ^b   Temocin, Engin Ufuk ^b   Atasoy, Halil Ibrahim ^b   Bayraktar, Omer ^b   Civi, Ozlem Aydin ^b   Demir, Simsek ^b   Koc, Sencer ^b   Akin, Tayfun ^b  

^a Capital MarketsBoard of Turkey ^*  (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTATICS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

EQUIVALENT CAPACITANCE; FREQUENCY RECTANGULAR SLOT ANTENNA;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 33847339864     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eucap.2006.4584979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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