Design of an electronically beam scanning reflectarray using aperture-coupled elements

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1260-1266

  Riel, Mathieu ^a,b   Laurin, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a POLY GRAMES RESEARCH CENTER   (Canada)

^b CMC Electronics   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Reflectarray antennas; Scanning antennas

Indexed keywords

BIAS VOLTAGE; ELECTRIC LINES; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; SCANNING ANTENNAS; VARACTORS;

APERTURE-COUPLED ELEMENTS; ELECTRONICALLY BEAM SCANING REFLECTARRAY; RECONFIGURABLE REFLECTARRAY ELEMENT; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 34249341729     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.895586     Document Type: Article

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