Investigations on 77 GHZ tunable reflectarray unit cells with liquid crystal

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn 626 SP, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Moessinger, A ^a   Marin, R ^a   Freese, J ^a   Mueller, S ^a   Manabe, A ^b   Jakoby, R ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electronically reconfigurable; Nematic liquid crystal; Reflectarray

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TUNING; WAVEGUIDES;

TUNABLE REFLECTARRAYS; TUNING VOLTAGES; WAVEGUIDE SIMULATORS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 33847387569     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eucap.2006.4584492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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