Liquid crystal tunable mm wave frequency selective surface

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 667-669

  Hu, Wenfei ^a,b   Dickie, Raymond ^b   Cahill, Robert ^b   Gamble, Harold ^b   Ismail, Yusof ^b   Fusco, Vincent ^a,b   Linton, David ^a,b   Grant, Norman ^c   Rea, Simon ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antennas; Filters; Frequency selective surface (FSS); Liquid crystals; Quasi optics; Reconfigurable

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; INSERTION LOSSES; PERMITTIVITY; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; TUNING;

DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY; FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE (FSS); QUASI OPTICS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34548284358     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2007.903455     Document Type: Article

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